313 - The Informer

The Informer
By Harold G. McCurdy

O the high ecstasy
of washing someone's feet,
of walking on water and raising the dead;
of. in short. being useful.

It's not often that thirteen men
will gather in a small loft room
to feast on joy and love
and only one of them all
suffer from indigestion
and have to rush out.

Even he had had his feet washed,
and ran therefore the more lightly
toward his consummation
at the police station.

Harold G. McCurdy is Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His hobby, at which he is more than an amateur, is writing poetry, and he has published his poems in journals and book form. Three of his poems appeared in the January 1982 issue of THEOLOGY TODAY.