Once again
Religion
Is tearing us apart
Judaic tears
Islamic fear
Shared values in the dark
To kill
For an idea
Judgmental and profane
Begins the end
The baby drowned
—in bathwaters of pain
(The New Room: November, 2023)
Circa April 17th, 2120, or 1820 military time,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd, nevertheless yet lovely
bones and flesh quite spry, still considered prime
(moost procreative, prodigious, and progressive)
stage, since (case ye didn't know) approximately
eight score orbitz round Earth's sun still noontime
chronologically analogous to protracted lunchtime
whereat the average offspring jetson or (daughter)
Born twenty years into twenty second century alive
and well (still hashtagged as precocious) with drive
to safely, sidestep, and surmount establishmentarian
archaic, formulaic, and mosaic Judaic/Christian give
wry master of words (me) take poetic license to jive
reasonably rhyming nope heart tickle early misthrive
moost definitely dirty deeds done dirt cheap (trick)
super tramping space cowboy lobbing power-drive
re: frequently innocent prelapsarian double entendre
(Jean Jacques Rousseau) Noble Savage he doth strive
even though hanky panky tinged entire his/her story,
Homo sapiens animal husbandry hastily did wive.
The flames
leaped and laughed
and licked at my skin.
And yet you didn’t save me.
The house
crumbled and crackled
and around me caved in.
And yet you didn’t save me.
Unclean!
Unclean! you cried
and watched the ashes spin.
Now it’s too late to save me.
In response to “A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century” by Linda
Pastan
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