Bus Stations

Bus stations are interesting places

where you'll meet people that aren’t afraid

to talk to other people that are

afraid to talk to them.

It takes a certain level confidence

to affiliate yourself

when your unwanted, and even more

of this swagger when after 10 minutes

your audience looks scared beyond belief.

I imagine Gandhi must have felt this way.

Maybe Martin Luther King Jr.

All of those big names!

I bet they were all so scared

when it was their time to deliver

their message to the world.

Not this guy though,

not this Bus Station prophet,

because even though

I only met this guy briefly,

as he was getting dragged away,

this guy, this shoeless man put his head up to my

stomach in the middle of a crowded

terminal and said, “You ate Jesus!”