Cherry Cola XXVI

Glen Armstrong

 

Every day, Sister fills a new aquarium

and watches fish for a

while.

 

She builds a shopping mall and watches

the shoppers while sipping an

Orange

 

Julius from a bench near the food court.

 

The world’s bubble and whir

still interest

her.

 

She builds a church and steeple

with her own

hands,

 

reconsiders her faith, applies lotion . . .

 

She watches a movie on Turner Classics

where the heroine wears a mink

stole,

 

its little face frozen in pain, its mouth

open, still awaiting a

pill.