are drinking our coffees in Starbucks when
I state, “Let me get this straight: Christians say
you informed Mary she’d bear Jesus, then
broke the news to Joseph.” Sipping latte,
he winks yes. “Jews preach you told Noah to
build the ark, and kept young Isaac alive.
You even placed Moses inside his tomb.”
Licking whipped cream, he nods affirmative.
“Muslims believe you revealed the Koran
to Muhammad, stood with him to assist
his ascension. Why can’t you help humans
see horrors of war and make them desist?”
He flaps a wing, shrugs, takes my two bread sticks,
munches, leans close, and whispers: “Politics.”
Roger Armbrust
June 13, 2007
