Sunday, March 29, 2020

NEVER TRUST A SECULAR HUMANIST

In times of crises such as these,
they say never trust 
a Secular Humanist 
who professes no allegiance 
to a religion or a nation, 
who seems little more than an
undocumented alien 
rapping a strange mix 
of apoplectic adoration
on street corners, or else 
spray-painting eco-friendly sci-fi 
superheros known as
ex-men on the chapel ceilings—
mutant power: bootstrapping 
spirituality—abracadabra,
kingdom-phylum into 
genus-species, thumbs and fingers 
into the shape of a W 
and used as an implement
for digging up the patterns 
in our fetid dumpsters of statistics 
in order to make lurid
apocalypse art, using
all the smuggest numbers
and most disobedient words.