THE CHURCH'S BITCH

I just biked through downtown stopping only for meandering tumbleweeds, agog at the calm void. What could make Super Target close their doors? What could make Crate and Barrel dim their track lighting? What could make The Gap silence their insufferable music? What force could possibly make capitalism bow its mighty head? Certainly not two thousand seven hundred people killed in New York City. Certainly not fifteen hundred Americans killed or the nineteen thousand Iraqis killed in the last two years.

But, a Christian holiday? Sure.