“Altar”-Shaped
January 14, 2013 | by Jason Novak
A send-up of George Herbert’s famous seventeenth-century shape poem “The Altar,” featuring my own conflicted version of devotion.
Jason Novak works at a grocery store in Berkeley, California, and changes diapers in his spare time.
Erin Nieto | January 14, 2013 at 1:02 pm
Do you not think, dear sir,
That your wife is similarly conflicted?
Yet when she finally convinces you
To spend an hour with your child
She must in turn
spend that hour
Folding laundry.
Shelley | January 14, 2013 at 1:55 pm
I don’t know about the verse, but I respect the writer’s life.
Real work is good.
Taking care of kids is good.
bob | January 16, 2013 at 6:45 am
It’s crying out for acrostics…
GZ | January 16, 2013 at 5:52 pm
Good one Erin. I agree with Shelley and found the penultimate line a bit awkward. Still, I admire the writer’s humor and efforts. His illustrations are very Feiffereske.