catapult magazine

Reading Is Worship

by Marcus Goodyear

Daniel didn’t get fired
the first day on the job.
Lion’s dens come later.
There are lines in the sand
that we do not cross.
There are lines in the books
of readers with pens.
Double study transforms us
into Janus, two-faced and shrewd,
to read strange junky stuff.
Read what you must
to learn what you must
to do what you must
to serve who you must
in Babylon.