IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, PALESTINE ...

CAUGHT PRAYING
© Don Brennan

Now you’ve caught me
in the thistle patch
listening at your church’s
door to your dead hearts’
thumping rage against those
whom you say trespass
against you.

Caught you offering innocence
to a violent God, take, eat these
infidel blown-apart children
whom we chew up in your holy
name, spitting out the pieces at
the Almighty’s stinking feet.

Prayers? Mere orgasmic shadows
rising from shameful altars in
cluster bomb clouds
blood lust and greed,
bigotry and hate,

Our enemy’s bodies piling up
to Heaven, halleluiah
in the names of the
In-God-We-Trust-USA.