the parking ticket

if god truly
loves us she says
while painting
her toe nails
a bright red,
than why
do so many people
die in such
horrible
painful ways.
why are there
earthquakes
swallowing up
cities, and volcanoes
and tsunamis,
not too mention
your tornados
and hurricanes
washing away
entire beach towns.
what's up with
that? she says.
yesterday I got
a parking ticket!
I don't know, you
tell her.
staring at her
little cherry toe
nails drying
in the sunlight.
maybe he's mad
at us for something?
hmm, she says.
could be. but what
did I do, I
didn't do anything
wrong, did I?