Sunday, January 17, 2010

Tunnel

We taxi through Managua streets


roofless tunnels 


walled with shanties, fences, and shops, 


filled  by barks and honks.


Hungry children live in the city dump, 


attacked by flies and fumes.


Hospitals amputate legs 


for lack of antibiotics.


And in Haiti corpses rot.


I crash.


My God, my God, why?


Joel Huyser says we we need a theology of suffering.


At this moment, I have no such theology, 


much less a clever one-line wrap-up for a blog.


The Nicaraguan heavens above this raucous tunnel are


hauntingly,


disappointingly,


silent.

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