one morning with my camera,
I saw a young man in a green army jacket
pause in front of a garbage dumpster
where someone had spray painted the words:
God said No!
In the Middle Ages, when someone
claimed to hear the voice of god
they were burned at the stake
or made into a saint (sometimes both).
In 21st century America taggers have wised up—
better to write the message in a public place
in letters the size of small child:
then walk back a safe distance,
into the shadow of tall buildings
or under the arms of a live oak
draped with Spanish Moss.
MICHAEL MINASSIAN is a Contributing Editor for Verse-Virtual. His short stories and poems have appeared in such journals as Comstock Review, Evening Street Review, Main Street Rag and Poet Lore. His chapbooks include poetry: The Arboriculturist (2010); Chuncheon Journal (2019); and photography: Around the Bend (2017). His poetry collection Time is Not a River was released in 2020.
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