Work Question Is Poems

Do you want to go to Heaven

Do I have to Work

No

Yes I want to go to 

Heaven

Thank you,

LORD...

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Existential Exams

By Mark D. Stucky
Math problems, essay questions,
multiple choice, fill in the blanks…
Many are the tests we take
from grade school through grad school.

We also encounter...

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Salvation in an App Store?

By Mark D. Stucky
Google Maps won’t work
for the way I feel lost.
Is there a salvation app
I can install on my phone
to...

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"The quality of a question is not judged by its complexity, 
but by the complexity of the thinking it provokes."
     ...

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(Author’s note: This poem is a humorous satire on how a modern media mentality would view the story of Christ’s Ascension.)


The Ascension (with Rewrites)

By Mark...

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Why is pleasure measured in moments,
while work is measured in weeks or years?

Pleasures are like insubstantial fictions, sweet treats gone
in the tasting or perhaps flowers,...

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Prime Minister’s Question Time
That Wednesday morning farce
That starts with the sycophants
Verbally kissing the Premier’s ****,
Followed by the Opposition Leader
Who begs and implores
Answers to his questions
Which...

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Across the track, a rail yard worker
big innocent bear of a guy, beer
belly, embraces his girl. She’s
a conductor, comes up to that belly,
reaches arms not...

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God will through men/man 
 you is it the willingness
 of man or be it
~
 just the God in man
 this is the question at...

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Shadows of Daylight

I walk up and down the isles, 
of the grocery store. 
I see things missing, 
and large gaps...,
in the background, 
of our day,...

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The body is a biological car,
maybe you inherited
a Rolls Royce, a Lamborghini,
a Maserati, most probably you got a Prius
or a work-truck.
Sooner or later,
whether a Bentley...

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A walk around the block in my parents’ neighborhood at dawn
wearing mom’s sweater and pop's sneakers with a clown hole cut out for  
...

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CLIMATE

The morning fog makes the world look soft,
Like seeing it through a fine cloth net -
Whatever the fog touches is cold and wet...
All the colors...

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So what do you want to be 
You want to represent your own culture
Give me a break 
Your culture has a patent 
For 
“Those who...

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We are all in the heart of politics,
But we don't want to admit it,
We are like angry critics
Trying to banish the good.

We carry our own...

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