ARCHITECT
ARCHITECT
Unfortunately
for most
who don’t regularly practice religion
the feeling of visiting a church
is closely related
with seeing friends marry
and seeing friends dead.
Thus, to the spectator,
the place becomes
a selective devourer
teetering back and forth
from innocuous
cobblestone building
to gobbling wonderhouse.
A corner shop
whose insides forever change you
from what you were when you entered
to something completely different when you left.
Like going to the mall
in the middle of winter
to watch a baby delivered in the coin fountain
then five years later
back to the mall
to see it drowned.