In Search of a Better Heaven
A drunken angel came to me,
God’s perfect creature, likely mad.
And so, I said this cannot be:
an angel puking, angry, sad.
He spoke directly, “What’s the point
to be an angel in that joint?
If we are only saved by grace,
then let no liquor go to waste.”
Richard T. Ringley is a poet whose works have been published by Blue Unicorn and other journals. He holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in North Carolina.