Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Author and Wax Poetic co-host Kevin Spenst.
The Biology of Belief
To imagine God is to invite joy into your heart:
there are no toilets in heaven and therefore no
assholes, intestines, desserts. No cake for a birthday
which is nevertheless celebrated every second on
the second by the firmament of angels. It’s happy
birthday to you for eternity and the stars are akin
to the candles for a cake that is the universe — the inverse
of what is felt inside — which is what Michael says in
his speech drowned out by God’s yawning. Michael
goes on and on. Everything takes longer in heaven
because everything happens atop everything else.
Nobody cares because they’re sharing in a singular
heartbeat and their wildest imaginations glow
from the trinity of mouths and eyes and even the insects
wassail with gobs open wide, filled with the light of liquor.
Kevin Spenst is a poet, essayist and inveterate doodler. He is the author of Ignite and Jabbering with Bing Bong (Anvil Press) and the chapbooks Pray Goodbye (the Alfred Gustav Press), Retractable (the serif of nottingham), What the Frag Meant (100 tetes press) snap (Pooka Press), and Surrey Sonnets (JackPine press). He's a co-host at Wax Poetic on Co-op Radio and one of the Dead Poets Reading Series coordinators.
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