Gary Edward Geraci

Mattress Sale

Perma-marker posts for mattresses, pointed 

Posts pushed into the ground, waving yard 

Signs, swaying in the wind, election season,

“Forty Dollars Down!!” Her boss to vote... 

Terrified she’ll lose the job she recently won if 

She doesn’t make sales, a legal, lawful 

Immigrant, single parent of one, awful -

The landlord would wrest away her rental...

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Less than one mile from here, a homeless man, 

A veteran, ran a war in Iran, a man 

Who stays in the woods; with dirty, infested

Bedding he rests his head, though this night,

Before One, a candle resting in red glass, 

He prays to the Lamb with ‘no place to lay His head.’

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-Gary Edward Geraci

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Jesus replied, \"Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.\" Luke 9:58