Come Sunday is a fragment by Jack Rusher, published here Sunday, January 13, 2008. It is part of Stories.
Observing the sabbath. From afar.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
God Creates the Heavens and the Earth (which appear to be a giant vulva), Cunradus Schlapperitzi, c. 1445.
God created the ho and the pimp, the grifter and the mark. The roscoe and the hoosegow, the cops and the robbers. The black mariah and the meat-wagon, the snitches and the shanks.
He built the big house, the outhouse, the whorehouse and the slaughterhouse, all from lifeless dust and clay.
God created the high hat and the bass drum, the harmonica and the lapsteel. He came to the juke joint to spread sawdust on the floor, gave old Sal accordion lessons, then left, shuffling all the way to Slidell.
He created the tears on that old woman’s face as she buried her son, and the shotgun the boy used.
Lord knows we asked him over and over, but God never answered the ancient riddle, “which came first, the pusher or the junkie?” All we know for sure is that on the Seventh Day he checked out of that cheap motel and drove into the desert alone and lonesome.