Not So Great Expectations
My favored Muse
mysteriously asks
muted
kinda sexist
win/lose
either/or
complex bilateral questions.
Oppositional
defiant
nearly despairing quests
exploring why I have yet to find
Faith
Hope
or delightful Joy
as names for a boy
Who might be named
willful Father William
or Pastor warlike Warren
or Patriarchal terrifying Terrence
or even red Deacon Fred's
bruising win/lose plots
against Reverend Bruce.
Vengeance is mine
says retributive justice
Preacher Justin
proclaiming blame
and shame
on monotheistic Religious Teacher
Shane.
Meanwhile
wise elderly EcoFeminists,
warming the pews
and cooperatively co-invested offering plates,
continue singing Joyful journey praises
Of Faith's passionate commitment
inside EarthMother's cathedral Grace
And Hope's sometimes unsisterly
yet sincere advocacy
for paper straws
to win EarthTribe's straining race
against ecocidal ocean polluting
patriarchal time
and desecrating capitalistic
commodifying space
Wherein my favored Muse
mysteriously asks
muted
musical
win/lose
either/or
complex bipartisan questions
of secular health care
and sacred safety shares,
music's dissonant glare,
bemusing bewares.
Spiritual springtime
invites Aunt April
Matriarchal May
Joyful June
While natural full-summered lust
and bustling Buster
fluster hot
sweaty
sometimes angry
idolatrously crusty August
oppression
suppression
repression
Negative impressions
of Winny's winter
wounded
advent womb
Emerging Tiffany's
annual Epiphany,
favoring ecofeminist Muse
mysteriously musing
kinda amusing
win/lose
either/or
complex bipartisan questions.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2023
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