Category Archives: Religion



Paradise?

Seventy-two unemployed, young virgins
Await you in paradise Ishmael
(The mullah promises)—and all your sins
Erased by feats your relatives retell—
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Posted in Death, Politics, Religion, War

Whoa! What’s Going On Here?

Michelangelo, what’s going on here?
Adam’s schlong’s a bit small, the navel scar
Superfluous—but that’s not what we most fear!
What’s with that flimsy minimal peignoir?
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Posted in Illusion, Lust, Religion

Behold!

Tell the truth! If you (not some almighty)
Designed these human bods would you not blush,
And contemplate the source of beauty’s blights—
Stubble, crinkled ears, hyperbolic tush?
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Posted in Beauty, Religion, Vanity

The Way It Is

Yeats was right; that shapeless, slouching beast,
Its toxic breath infecting all the Earth—
Perilous mutation—nullifying
Sense and arch philosophy,
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Posted in Politics, Religion, War, Wisdom

Bible Tales Not Heard In Sunday School

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The Rape of Dinah (Genesis 34)

Dinah, comely sister of Jacob’s sons,
Foolishly, wandered a strange neighborhood
Revealing to Prince Shechem, luscious buns,
Accoutrements that turned his dick to wood.
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Posted in Politics, Religion, War

IT, The One True God, Responds To My Open Letter

I have no name, nitwit!
And have no interest
In your piddling concerns.
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Posted in Religion