messiahs

don’t believe what all those prime time messiahs tell you
they’re only looking for ratings
and a
new mercedes

rejected

the monk
hung his head
and
walked alone in silence
when they told him
jesus
didn’t love him anymore

war babies

the bombs fell
and
the face
that
wasn’t
a face
screamed in
horror
looking at her
babies
she knew her
eyes
would never
again
be like other people’s
eyes

cherry blossom

I’m an honorable cherry
blossom
going back to
bloom
at my mother’s
knee

grannie's shotgun

grannie's shotgun went off by mistake
last night
it
blew the head off of our neighbor's
dog
and now little billy
cries all the way to school
where the classroom bully kicks
his ass for
being a
sissy

the police said granny was a menace
and took the gun away
we all just laughed and sent her
off to one of those
homes
where they gave her a chemical
lobotomy
and now
she just sits there
talking to
jesus all day