"The Nice Young Man Visits" by Rev. David Breeden

The very nice young man, even
Christian, comes way out to our
house to talk about the gas. The 

gas that is surely down there 
under the farm, just sitting there, 
waiting (who would have thought? 

Whoever could have got it out,
but isn’t it almost unbelievable, 
how smart people have got
 
these days?) And he, the
very nice young man, even
Christian, tells me how it’s even

almost a miracle, how they do
all this. Something nobody 
could ever have used before is 

the hope of America. A 
miracle--we’ll be free of all 
those foreigners with their oil. 

And we know what they want, 
after all, don’t we? The nice man, 
young and even Christian, says.

Yes, naturally, think about it all 
you want. Just call him when. 
Just call him when all I want 

to do is sign and get rich. 


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Rev. Dr. David Breeden, Minister has a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from The Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, with additional study in writing and Buddhism at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. He also has a Master of Divinity degree from Meadville Lombard Theological School. The author of many books, Rev. David blogs at wayofoneness.wordpress.com and revdocdavid.tumblr.com. He tweets at @dbreeden.