The Tale of Convergence

 

Very special day.

Huge, huge crowds.

Assembled to propitiate

the alien God of Greed.

Thousands of bare-faced

admirers braved the heat,

hoping to glimpse their

bloviating orange savior.

Festive throngs boarded

the silver spaceship, feeling

anticipation of the unknown.

Anything could happen,

fun, excitement, salvation.

A giant camp meeting.

 

Tulsa, a Hellmouth city,

long awaited this day.

Ground beneath opened,

spit fire into the downtown sky

like Fourth of July.

The swirling spaceship

disappeared into the

bowels of the Earth.

 

Later, the City Council

voted to seal, pave the site.

Now a parking lot

and home of the

Terence Crutcher

Free Housing Center

for those in need.