“Patience is the game,”
she said,
“when you’re fishing for Truth.”
She was beaten,
and she was bruised:
she was Jesus Christ,
my walking blues.
I think there’s no bait for heart:
you either have love
or you’re dead.
Dedicated to Paula Puolakka
Jeffrey Fansler is a pen & ink artist. This is his first poem (and maybe the last.)