Clumsy Thick Fingers

Clumsy Thick Fingers

He is a clumsy Don Quixote
attacked on the overpass by sheaves of
fly away plywood.
Stooping and sweating to hold the sheet
like a stiffened sail into the wind;
now he's late for church.

He's a thick fingered guitar hero
spoiling Leonard Cohen's classic
Hallelujah prayer,
but wheelchair ladies, friends, and neighbors
applaud in patient kindness for the
sacred offering.