Forget about frocks and sacraments, if you would
for a moment shake the vestments, the wafers, martyrs and saints
and rejoice instead on the preponderance of we who would ponder,
who know that simply to ponder is a privilege pervaded by what constitutes God.
© Chagall 2014
Heard that the post office is going away
as well as AM radio,
film photography too,
though vinyl’s making
a sort of comeback.
Harder to find
a payphone nowadays
along with etiquette, courtesy,
genteel and polite society
that once helped
make the world
go round.
© Carlos Chagall, 2013
Alphabet City 