Why me?
Why did I have to be there
when God wanted
to be rid of Jonah?
Why couldn't He let the man
lie on the ocean floor
where he wouldn't bother anyone?

But no!
God said, "Swallow Jonah!"
No one else could make me do it.
I had to hold my nose
to get him down.

The guy
is too tough to digest.
It's been three days
and I still feel him
squirmingin my belly.

God said,
"Swallow Jonah!"
He didn't say I had to keep him.

Vera Ogden Bakker
West Bountiful, UT