Monday in B-flat

Monday in B-flat - meaning Summary

Prayer Vs. Urgent Help

The poem contrasts spiritual prayer with immediate earthly interventions to highlight inequality and the poet’s sense of abandonment. Its spare lines suggest that divine presence is remote while state or violent forces respond swiftly when summoned. The final ironic turn — that help from secular authority brings the Devil "in a minute" — criticizes institutional power and its harmful, rapid impact on Black life and safety.