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David Feela
Any Truth holds a multitude’s attention.
Take the Sermon on the Mount,
the first fast food
with fewer than a billion served.
As each hand reaches for fish and loaf
the line gets shorter
and since there’s nothing else on the menu
the line moves steadily:
two fish, one loaf,
one fish, three loaves,
two loaves, hold the fish.
It’s a miracle,
people swallowing what’s available
then coming back for more.
And they say, Jesus wept.
I can sympathize.
The Truth looks too much like a fish
when people are hungry
but fill their bellies and off they go,
down the hill, heading home.
The taste they’ll remember
one or even two days later
but since a multitude always moves on
the faithful pick up crumbs
long after the hill has emptied,
filling their baskets
with what has been wasted,
as if to prove there’s room
for a billion more.
David Feela is a poet, freelance writer, writing instructor, book collector, and thrift store pirate. His work has appeared in regional and national publications, including High Country News’ “Writers on the Range,” Mountain Gazette, and in the newspaper as a “Colorado Voice” for the Denver Post. He is a contributing editor and columnist for Inside/Outside Southwest and for The Four Corners Free Press. His poetry chapbook, Thought Experiments (Maverick Press), won the Southwest Poet Series.
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