7.

Maybe

if just once

I was the one up there

with the microphone

and perfect hair

talking about hunger

and natural disasters

Or maybe

if I was the

one in the front

who reached in my wallet

for a twenty

and was the very first

to come to the altar

Or perhaps

if I spoke

Spanish

or French

Or went to

chapel

on Thursday

nights

Or spent

more

time in

the Library

Or if I had

one of those

t-shirts

or a weekly

byline

Or maybe

just anything

with a name

on it

something

to belong to

someone to be

maybe then

it would be

easier

to breathe

?