Wax Ear ( a poem from the series "Milagros + Retablos")

Wax Ear


You ought to take God’s hint
who gave you twice as many ears
as tongues. It takes years, this.
Fuck the career.
Becaws I begun to know by then
I wer some kind of lissener as wel.


(the text in italics is a quotation from Russell Hoban's novel, Riddley Walker)