Allison Davis, "Minister" (1928) (2nd poem with this title)
You make your living
By talking through a service
About God,
And rejoice equally
To get a marriage or
A funeral.
Have you convinced yourself yet
That this whole business of a church
And confident speaking to God, with you leading,
Is not a madman’s game?
And aren’t they fools to be paying you a salary
To speak to God for them,
When your thoughts are always
Of a pretty wife
And a larger church?
Published in The Crisis, March 1928