Not going to do it
Or even pretend.
.
Go to church and swear
Obedience to inscrutable
Deities whose very existence
Strains credulity?
.
Not going to do it
Or even pretend.
.
Made-up stories starring
Anthropomorphic, jealous
Super-creatures with
Terrible tempers
Earn nothing from
Reasonable people but
Scorn and derision.
John G. Rodwan, Jr., essayist and poet, lives in Detroit.