Brooklyn to the East

The strength leaves the bones in little ways. You don't feel it. No amount of milk drinking will fix it. Well, maybe it will. You haven't tried. Too much milk makes you gag. It goes so slowly though, you don't notice it until your hackles are risen and your fist is cocked and there your bones feel like the bones of some bird. And you realize all your strength, the bone strength, is being systematically, has been systematically, emptied. And you turn to God and He is there, and He turns away because He knows how it feels. And you've hurt his feelings too many times for Him to look you in the eye.

3 comments:

Anna E. Bush said...

You don't even need to worry about osteoperosis.
And that milk chugging contest in the DC is not forgotten.

Toddy said...

I thought of that contest while writing this post.

Unknown said...

love that picture, looks like New York, in Nataniel Hawthorne's time -