“She would of been a good woman,”
The Misfit said,
“If it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
And so too do I
So need his wonderful ministry.
Those violent slugs to the chest
Boring clean through smugness,
Making holes to ooze out self pity,
To tear light into the darkness.
He should start a radio show.
Come into my home.
Not be so hard to find.
So that it would not just be
Down lonely, indulgent roads
That I meet by
ACCIDENT
His ministry of violence.
His violent mercy.
This poem would benefit from some more work on my part to better honor and reflect the story from which it is derived http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/goodman.html
but I am rather poem lazy, well revision lazy period. Not good, but true.
OK, I did revise a bit and changed the last line.