VIRGINS

The seventy virgins of paradise
they would be heaven sent
with a heavenly scent
winged or not winged
sexed or not sexed
males or females
with operable organs
or no organs at all
perhaps neutered
or firmly sutured
to remain virgins forever
waiting for islamist terrorist

Virgins to not wait
for christian terrorists
in paradise

SCIENCE AND RELIGION

T's not the winds of heaven
that trample down the pines
or blows in easy flow along the sea
but earthly winds blowing from the sea
plus water doesn't flow from smitten rock
as scientist know from their geology
and gravity is the cause of seaward flow
meteorologist know why the tempests blow
these are things that we now know

Why seek to know why to understand
ignorance is for those who do not care
no honest toil is vain the searcher knows
that if all science were formulated prayer
the monks the priest the ministers the pope
would be mathematicians engineers of hope
and all their prayers would not get us far
to propel our rockets to the nearest star
and this is what I believe I know

Response to Ambrose Bierce on his
poem titled SCIENCE

SEX AND GENDER

Some men growing old
become pussy cats
some even grow breast

Some women become tigers
become aggressive
grow hair on their chins

Genes and hormones
vary the individual mix
of genders for all parties

An embryo can become
fixed between genders
to become a bit of both

Some find themselves
in the body of a different
gender not fitting their desires

As some grow older
they could care less
about sex or gender

CHRISTIANS OFF TO WAR

We are christians off to war
through the mud the shit the gore

We are christians unafraid
for we've been there before

We will save your heathen soul
that is our christian goal

We are christians unafraid
for we've been there before

We will blast your heathen ass
to bring you freedom liberty alas

We are christains unafraid
for we've been there before

We are christains off to war
through the mud the shit the gore

THE SOJOURN

Out of Africa
black as my Frisco jeans
my ancestors headed north
then west east north again
in both directions toward
the unknown continent
20 to 60 thousand years ago

In hunger they followed
the beasts of forest and plains
as the heavy rains bleached
their hides and the desert
winds slanted their eyes
some became the color
of the blowing yellow sands

I am of east and west
and my unknown progeny
of variable shades of color
shall undoubtedly sojourn
onward and outward
to satisfy that inward
restlessness to understand
and to know the unknown
that lies just beyond the known

MILITARY TIME

The recruiter promised said
we provide room and bread
sign you up for just ten years
the recruiter never told you or your peers
your service may well extend
forever for a war that never ends
you may bitch and you may cry
if we wish we have you 'till you die
no the recruiter never told
once you're in we have your soul

DARK DAYS

It is a dark day
when our leaders contrive
to balance truth with lies

It is a dark day
when our president derives
from intelligence data that lies

It is a dark day
when our govenment declares
the sanctity of torture wares

It is a dark day
when most people do not care
after all it is not their affair

ONLY IF

If secularist agnostics and atheist
and sinful christians unrepentant
were regularly struck by lighting

If pedophiles priest and fraudulent
politicians and serial killers
were found dead without known cause

If the worst of dictators and tyrants
who commit on their own genocide
were found as suicides self brutilized

If when the leaders of all nations
promote and facilitate everlasting peace
assist the poor the famished the sick

Then I would question my own disbelief

GODLESS

NEITHER BY NIGHT
NOR LIGHT OF DAY
FOREVER AND EVER
SHALL THERE EVER BE ANY GODS
DEMONS OR ANGELS BEFORE ME
NOR SUCH IMAGES
OF ANY RELIGIONS
WHEREVER I DWELL
OR ON MY WALLS
WHERE IN I DWELL
OR ON MY BODY
OR ON THE LAND
OR ON ANY I CALL
MY VERY OWN