poem of the day 01.23.13

tyranny of religion

some girl

makes the sign of the cross

when she walks past a church

and for the day

that absolves her of all the shit

that she’s put other through

and they say

twenty-percent of americans

no longer believe in god

but you wouldn’t know it

on these pious streets

on the television

in speeches by presidents

and other glowing leaders

with white hair

white teeth

you’d think we were undergoing

the next great revival

guns

god

and government

so i’m not fooling myself

when i see these kinds of statistics

i pass over them dully

and then go on to read the sports

because i know i’ll never see the end

of religious tyranny

or holy hypocrisy

in my lifetime

a final nail brought down

upon those heinous, murderous myths

breaking the chains

and sending

jesus, buddha, muhammad

and all the rest of those clowns

crawling into the comics books

along

with zeus

superman

popeye

and bugs bunny.