prayer

worship
on all fours
worship
in a pool of your own piss
praying to anyone who will listen
asking for help
asking for mercy
please don't take me now
worship
in a bucket of your own nervous vomit
worship
as they pull the lever
as you sit in the chair
as you rock back and forth
like a suffocating pendulum

we worship what we perceive to provide
things like the ocean or the sun
things like convection currents and nuclear fussion
things like seeds and ancestors
things like uteri and the hand that feeds
the things from which new hope arises

but when push comes to shove
an imaginary man in the sky will do