The Second Going

[billy]

i do like your poetry vista. i can't always grasp it but i do like it. a question, why do you like to cap a letter after a comma. (which of course is allowed and often done)? i think it takes away something from a good poem.

i like how the last couplet brings the hypocrisy into the now and shows it as a business, some good, a lot of good lines in the poem

An etherized coma.
Ectopic hearts beat
In a gangrenous body.

pretty much sums up the church as dead or apathetic.

thanks for the read.

"The Second Going"

Who tortured the Rabbi,
Milked, then bled the Lamb,
And passed the scepter to high -
Hatted grifters?

Just a turning world,
Half-lifed into
An etherized coma.
Ectopic hearts beat
In a gangrenous body.

There's dope in the cathedral.
There's tears on Herod's Wall.
Hijabs muzzle double-tongued
Angels, Ravi Shankar played
The hippies' ball.

Vultures come to gnarl
On the morbidity of faith,
Filling their gizzards
With apocalyptic horsemen.
The moral compass spins
Like a propellor, until
It flies into orbit.

No more free men in Paris.
No more mistletoe.
When you ask for change
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