Meandering in Piraeus

Meandering in Piraeus

Meandering in Piraeus

Sunday in Piraeus, a
line of people outside a church

I joined the line and was inside given a bag of cakes.

The old woman behind me was refused a bag of cakes

it appears she had joined the line three times,

I gave her my bag.  I
didn’t think much of priests who were
mostly

 soft faced and fat looking.
The old woman had no teeth

I bought her a soft drink to swallow her cakes.

I sat in the park nursing a Dutch beer the local beer was

not to my liking, when the old woman came demanding

money I refused and
she screamed rape. The police removed

her from the park. In the park a grotto, by paying a few
drachma,

 I could go in and
there was an in a glass cage a likeness
of baby Jesus

as only a disturbed person could have made, the eyes of baby
Jesus

were full of malice and he had an erection big as a smithy’s
arm.