By Chana Bloch
One day I dared to put the O back
in G-d,
I watched Him bulge to God -
paunchy, respectable
and sad.
I brooded about my heresy
until I guessed
that God who loves the circle best
only to find
our angularity
might after all not mind.
He'd take it to heart, perhaps,
if I chose to drop the caps.
But O that fine round O
fleshed out from the scrawny spine
of a minus sign -
or would He object that O
was zero,
taking Him in vain?
God knows,
and O is an O is an O,
and slyly checks
our tic-tac-toe
with His wry X.
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