Wednesday, September 3, 2025

My Argument in Church (Before, During & After)


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


Mythville Bookstore

 

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