A Country Club (poem)

and on the first day

the day of the sun

man created god in his own image

in the image of man created he him

doing not what he believes

but believing what he does

not practicing what he preaches

but preaching what he practices

doing what’s convenient

so that then he can repent

and when the man came

to show man the true way

man assassinated the man

by legal decree

from a kangaroo court

then killed the truth he brought

thru legend and rumor and myth

resurrecting him from the dead

sitting him above at god’s right hand

safely out of reach

isho the galilean prophet-king

is now jesus the divine redeemer

demigod avatar to the gentile race

and the church promises

everlasting life to all

who bow to its decrees

but you first have to join the club

and pay your weekly dues

while the messiah ben david

wearing his thorny crown

looks on in despair

(Written some thirty years ago when I was pre-seminary at university in the 1980's.)