Camel in a Cuisinart

You’d think Christians would be quick
to advocate for anybody but the devil.
Yet who is the first to complain
when David slings his stone?
Ambushing the noble Goliath
like a gutless coward
before he could meet the shepherd
in the more honorable form of combat
Sword vs. Crook
Tank vs. Tunic

People project piety while waiting
for a Rapture already in progress
their eyes glued to the heavens
as they trip over the clothes and corpses
unaware they are the ones being Left Behind
martyrs of neglect are welcomed as birds in Paradise
the cold ground, for them, a warmer hearth
than these houses of so-called Unconditional Love.
Those less fortunate, the ones seen by their “saviors”
discover just how the children of God
treat the least of their brothers and sisters.

Sitting pretty in their homes
long since forsaking their earthly church
with Her haughty homilies and pews as hard as Her principles
modern missionaries sow from the sofas
reciting scripts, never reading scripture
so their message, not God’s, can be spread
in 30 seconds or less, them belly full
reading Matthew 19:24
Alhamdulillah for the man
that fit a camel in a Cuisinart.