Variation on Revelation, Female Deity

 

For I am the first and the last.

I am the honored one and the scorned one.

I am the whore and the holy one.

I am the wife and the virgin . . .

I am the barren one,

  and many are her sons . . .

I am the silence that is incomprehensible . . .

I am the utterance of my name.

from Gnostic text, Thunder, Perfect Mind (0-200 AD)

Ordinary Tale #1 24Sept2020

 Ordinary Tale

September 24, 2020

Aldi today, guy reaches by me for milk, no mask.

Me: Well, aren't you special!

What?

No mask

I don't wear one

Incredibly inconsiderate of you

If you look at the science . . .

No! Don't need that bullshit today

So tired

Atheist

Atheist

A small ant,

halting across an expanse

of lighted keyboard

blacking out parts of letters,

oblivious to search results

for anything, everything, nothing

strolls across Delete, Backspace and

spells out + - P O L O

before disappearing,

doesn't think I exist.

Miasmic Pentameter

Miasmic Pentameter
(A Pandemic Poem)

Grocery store especially grim today
Toilet paper gone, no flour

People are baking and shitting
Like no other time in history

A crabby ass lady hums a dark psalm
Scouring soup label like scripture

Finding no quick redemption
She settles for low sodium