About – myReligion
November 16, 2007
I was raised a Roman Catholic. I attended Catholic schools my entire educational life. I have been taught by Benedictine nuns, Marist brothers, and Jesuit priests.
I consider myself fortunate that I was required to study Theology and Philosophy. It is sad to realize that the vast majority of college graduates today are not required to do so. “Teach people to think for corporations and not for themselves”, seems an apt portrayal of modern educational programming.
In some of my poems I criticize organized religion in general and Catholicism in particular. I focus on Catholic because that is what I know best. I hope insiders of other faiths continue to criticize the incongruence and extremism in theirs.
the God Cage
November 7, 2007
We frame God
in a cage of words
like a monkey
begging for coins.
Number one
September 27, 2007
Brainwashed –
water hose in my mouth
baptized from inside out
Viva Las Vatican
September 13, 2007
I was taught
only Catholics are saved.
I would worry
Elvis might burn in hell.
I did pray
for his conversion.
If only otherwise…
September 11, 2007
We heard oral sex
ten thousand times
more
than terrorism.
We saw her face
ten thousand times
more
than the evildoer.
Upon Discovering a Tyrant (in revision)
June 5, 2007
atop wooden consoles
we pulled in whatever
was out there
footage of tanks
in hopeless mud
cannons flashing
through the night
our rugged life,
at the television
we would stare
zeros twisting
down in flames
der fuhrer pounding
with indignant might
in truculent german
to adoring masses
who would cheer
as he screamed
we versus them
follow the dream
the deutsches reich
I would wonder
what is he saying?
why is he so angry?
why are people
cheering
goose stepping
haling heiling
singing crying
like fools
smiling?
(just as a non
anglophone might think
when first hearing Limbaugh)
screwing common people
May 30, 2007
common people
want peace
and harmony
those who divide us
are manipulators
and misfits
power brokers
and fist lovers
how do we cope?
drugs and tv
earning and spending
through escape
we join them
poor God – so misunderstood
May 22, 2007
poor God –
always an excuse
for war,
always an excuse
for wealth.
changing in place
May 20, 2007
new package
new bottles
new make
new models
new fashion
new faces
new gadget
new places
old game
new looks
old fish
new hooks
qazse 