Forked Tongue
a forked-tongued charmer he obviously is,
with a gift of gab for reassuring,
wooing unsuspecting victims of his,
hoodwinking the naive to give offering
hard-earned money as gift, as donation
for a kind of lay-away plan seven
or some sort of star guest reservation
for a future six-star suite in heaven;
now charged with serious crimes he has been,
fraud here, swindling there and embezzlement,
he claims as man of God he's good and clean
and that as a preacher he's innocent;
in all his alleged immoral affairs,
he says consent was always a given,
invoking rights as one of Eden's heirs
to the future six-star suites in heaven.
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