With my eyes rolling over
the quaint antique verses
presuming to direct-quote God,
I get Dante's "Inferno" in the gut,
a recipe fostering ignorance
& manifest destiny, division,
violence at any disagreement
Fables inundating normies,
deluding folks into delirium
that the Lord was actually speaking
when instead it was only a targeted
advertisement for bullies in the pulpit,
sure, sure, sure, black printed Bible
doing good slightly more than evil,
but still but still but still ... Not worth it,
despite the human math. If mushroom clouds
hover over your enemies ... your many,
many enemies ... then you get a pass
from space brother Jesus? What a laugh.
No. No. No. Lessons of mortality
are taught by the Earth and the seasons,
and if you act not, breeding pestilence,
hummingbirds will drop exploding steel,
the fools errand to describe the afterlife,
that perfect lawnmower,
that Mercedes mansion
is but moon dust everlasting
~ Douglas McDaniel
Tolleson, Arizona
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