prayer

Our desperation to keep an antiseptic distance between ourselves and the world's grotesqueries
exacerbated by the distress of our guilt at doing so leads us to
ferret out and vilify perpetrators of evil in a world
that has more of apathy than of evil and
more of fear than apathy and then to
lavish heroes' praise on those who
reach into filth and danger to
do good works in our stead
freeing us to comment on
the news and knit our
brows in show of
commiseration
pass the pop
corn and
say there
but for
the gr
ace
of