The hastily assembled angel followed
The humans to their freedom Just he wondered like
The eyes of the angels when they fol-
lowed me after the angels shoved
Me out of Heaven the angel followed them until
They came upon a desert-colored city
Surrounded by a wall of crumbling bricks
Before which guards armed not with spears but sticks
Stood and the humans in their freedom raised
Their fingers to their mouths to say We have
No food and the guards waved their empty hands
To say There is no food in the city and
The humans in their freedom killed them both
And pounded with their bloody fists on the splintering gates
Which shook but didn’t break the angel watched as
The humans in their freedom made a giant calf with
A golden body and an iron head
And slammed the calf into the gates
Which shook and broke apart the angel saw the
Humans in their freedom became as hungry then
As any who had ever lived
Hungrier than the humans in the city
Who had fed on living in a city
And the angel flew into the burning city
And kneeled before the calf as he had seen
So many humans kneel before the gods they
Had made What god is this he wondered
I kneel before knowing it is no god