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POEMS AFTER THE OLD TESTAMENT photo

1 Samuel

One well-shot stone
kills a giant.

You can do anything
if you're not in jail.

If all my problems
were one guy
I'd cut his head off.

God would crown me king.


2 Samuel

Bathing on the roof
where birds shit
isn't optimal.

You are so smooth-skinned
I would send your husband
to war to die.

There would be consequences
but I'm a man
after God's own heart.


1 Kings

Bisexuality is a kind of polytheism.

I am ceremonially unclean.

I can't touch the Ark without sacrifice.

Is tight ass my downfall?


2 Kings

I'm trying not
to stiffen my neck like my fathers.

Avalanche of time
bury me in muddy slush.

I pray for sleep and dry underwear.


1 Chronicles

Men fuck up.

God is aspiration.

Men are human.

God doesn't die.


2 Chronicles

The wisest farmer I know
lives in a trailer
half broken down
beside twelve cows.

He chews tobacco
waits for death
and is happy alone
milking his livestock.

He's the only farmer I know
who doesn't own a gun.

He's the only farmer I know
who doesn't have a wife.

I know five farmers.


Ezra

I like his arms.

They're bigger than mine.

If we got in a fist fight
I would lose.

Idk why that's part of it for me.

As if some jock bully
from years ago
also has fantasies to hide.

He's Babylon and
to be conquered is to be held.

 


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