Category Archives: Religion



Arcade Game? (an Unholy Sonnet)

Guilt is one thing, but grim acquiescence
To Yawah’s tyranny’s another thing
Altogether! Listen, who put the bling
In sex if not God? So why is license Continue reading →

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God

There’s a fellow down at the tennis courts
Who keeps asking me about god. Which one,
I wonder, Yawah? Krishna? Zeus? Or Thor?
Inari? Jesus? Crow? Allah? Kwannon? Continue reading →

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Applied Poetry

Zeal inflames guts and brain—gurgles, boiling—
Creates this piercing patter that arrays
Fresh agitation. Sound patterns roiling—
Image, meter, rhyme (nothing too outré). Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, War

Nursery Rhyme

Mary had a great big goat
With fleece of ebony,
And everywhere that Mary went
That red-eyed goat would be. Continue reading →

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Religion

One time,
At a small Hindu Temple
Outside Benares
(After attendant monks
Continue reading →

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Bellus Bellum

When a beaten bellicose addled drunk
Through puffed lips cries “Can’t we just get along?”
You wonder: is this pious scofflaw punk
On to something? Could be. But not for long. Continue reading →

Posted in Religion, War