12. Manufactured Gods

THEY put up big wooden gods.

Then they burned the big wooden gods

And put up brass gods and

Changing their minds suddenly

Knocked down the brass gods and put up

A doughface god with gold earrings.

The poor mutts, the pathetic slant heads,

They didn’t know a little tin god

Is as good as anything in the line of gods

Nor how a little tin god answers prayer

And makes rain and brings luck

The same as a big wooden god or a brass

God or a doughface god with golden

Earrings.