Mike Perkins
Trip to the Mall
the modern day Beulah land
supplicants go
to sacrifice their earnings
past and present
prophecy replaced
with popular culture
faces flushed from the heat
of the burning bush of marketing
taken by the spirit
speaking in tongues
healed by consumerism
communion in the food court
heeding the alter call
of fifty percent off
as the choir sings
a medley of pop muzak
Bio
Mike Perkins lives and writes in Columbia, Missouri. He has had over forty poems published in twenty publications in the United States, and abroad. His work has also been featured in some public readings.