Author: Allison Boyd Justus

  • I name my vain entitlement Jonah

    I name my vain entitlement Jonah

    You sweet precious  prophet, you drama-driven  poet, you prophet         for profit: if not cash then  congratulation, admiration, ease,  indulgence, delight all taste     so sweet. O you sweet sluggish     reluctant “prophet” (you like  that word), enlightened one,         so chosen, so wise, with what serenity you step aboard the ship     that…