POEM | Search Party

First, search for god in children.

If it is not there today, then look to all pets before adult humans. A hamster may hold The Creator. Or look to a nervous smoke-detector or a phone book.

Then maybe to a stalk of corn, a generous faucet, orange Play-Doh, or a broken clock—it will be there before it can ever be inside mankind.

If you stumble upon it, and it has a mouth, it will smile at you just before it inserts a paper clip into an electric wall socket.

And it will say to you, before the jolt:

Macandcheeezzz!