It was on an anti-poverty Facebook group
a comrade posted the picture of bread from the Burnside supermarket
very different from the suburbs
most of them live.
$6 a loaf for 30 hour sourdough,
brown and crustedly rounded, a sprinkle of seeds
but as someone remarked
“it still looks the same
when it comes out of the dumpster”
Someone sneered at fake-poverty-chic
and faker empathy
and someone is getting ready to go out
on a cold July night
to dumpster dive for the community.
Panis Angelicus: Corpus Christi
not just in Burnside
but in the solidarity of the starving
because we are the angels, the prophets
our message is Word and Bread
cold street word and dumpster bread
the body, the real presence
Amen.
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