That's why I don't get invited to Catholic colleges.
[LAUGHTER]
I actually have been.
I actually have been invited to a Catholic college quite often
in Minnesota.
But there's always some sort of controversy when I come.
I had a nun ask me after I did a reading once.
There was a question-and-answer period afterwards.
And the nun, who turned out to be a mean nun I found out.
A friend of mine turned to me and said
he had studied with her.
He had gone to the school and studied with her.
And he said, ah, don't pay any attention to her,
she's a mean nun.
But her only question was to me was,
are you afraid of the cross?
I was like-- in a question and answer
period, that was her question.
And I said, hell, yeah.
This is my attempt at a political poem.
And Jesus also makes an appearance in this,
for some reason.
Jesus is making a lot of appearances in politics
these days.
"Imagination."
"The ground's not a bad place to live for a while, a few years.
Not face down, exactly, not face up either.
Hovering, say, over the dirt.
The Earth is dirt, our body's dirt.
And you floating there a hand's width above me
just until things blow over.
That war, say, Jesus, did we really just make it all up?"