god has failed
to live up to his résumé
since the germinal moments
of the industrial age
yet somehow
he keeps getting
a pay raise
Tag: theology
is an
overwhelmed
single parent
for the entirety of my existence
i have wondered why
evangelicals cling so lovingly
to heaven as a tupperware party
and hell as an infinite cesspool of punishment
opposite the sky
…it is for these reasons
they need to believe there is a reward for the suffering humans endure
and
that there exists a place
worse
tailor made for the evil person thriving amongst us
a place for them
worse
than a village filled with the swollen bellies
of fly covered dying children
worse
than one of hitler’s gas chambers
worse
than a vivisection tent during the civil war
where slave women had there genitals
hacked apart by confederate doctors
worse
than the screams and stench of a chicago
slaughter house in 1879
worse
than the hands of a pedophile
worse
than the greasy mouth of a politician
somewhere
worse
than
this
life
Categories
greek revival
i want him
to slide his tongue
into my mouth
atop the grand staircase
at the art museum
my back arching over the brass rail
as he pushes his hardness
into my skirt
making marble columns quake
as the stained glass saints
and watchful docents
turn their heads to blush
all i need to know of religion
is that jesus was john lennon
before john lennon was