A Carolina Psalter. Tony Scully

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СКАЧАТЬ survival

      Our endurance

      Our weaponry

      The Lord reigneth forever and ever

      So says the Psalm

      Get on the right side, Sister

      Our courts overflow

      With tales of terrorists

      And infidels who wish us dead

      At the same time

      They besiege our gates

      Innocent

      And eager to arrive

      The wicked go down to the realm of the dead, All the nations that relinquish God

      The evangelicals

      And the fundamentalists

      Insist we will be judged for our iniquity

      To be specific:

      Homosexuality

      Abortions

      Lesbians running for office

      Embryos are the face of God

      The believers say

      As they bomb women and children in Iraq

      Afghanistan

      Somalia

      The world in pieces

      The mind of man shattered into insanity

      God will not forget the needy, says the Psalm

      Even as they perish

      Strike our enemies with terror, Lord

      We praise your contradictions

      Your complexity

      Your absence

      Forever and ever

      Amen

      Psalm Ten

      1 Why standest thou afar off, O God?Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?2 In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued;Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire,And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth God.4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it.All his thoughts are, There is no God.5 His ways are firm at all times;Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.6 He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved;To all generations I shall not be in adversity.7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression:Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;In the secret places doth he murder the innocent;His eyes are privily set against the helpless.9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert;He lieth in wait to catch the poor:He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.10 He croucheth, he boweth down,And the helpless fall by his strong ones.11 He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten;He hideth his face, he will never see it.12 Arise, O God; O God, lift up thy hand:Forget not the poor.13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, To requite it with thy hand:The helpless committeth himself unto thee;Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.15 Break thou the arm of the wicked;And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.16 God is King for ever and ever:The nations are perished out of his land.17 God, thou hast heard the desire of the meek:Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.

      The prosperity gospel is a billion-dollar industry

      God wants us to be rich

      Bitch

      Jesus died on the cross, didn’t he?

      The down day of all time

      He also rose from the dead

      As the story goes

      Iridescent

      Ready to rule

      Conclusion: it’s all good news

      The law of attraction

      Yes Ma’am

      I’ve got resurrection written on my chest

      In the meantime

      Police shoot black men in the back

      His cell phone looked like an Uzi

      Said the shooter

      Swear to God

      The president boasts he’s very rich

      As the drones of our democracy

      Bombard weddings in Afghanistan

      Evidently a mistake

      Focus on the higher goal

      Freedom

      And universal suffrage

      With God there is success

      States the blue-eyed beneficiary of European DNA

      The prosperous man announces to himself

      “Nothing will ever shake me.”“No one will do me harm”

      That way, he lies in wait

      And when the moment comes

      He does away with gooks

      Insurgents raised from birth

      To murder us

      But no, we have learned to wait, we will,

      To drag away the corpses of our enemies

      Heads hacked off

      Hearts hanging

      Memories erased

      That’s what you do best

      You look away

      From our sickness and our misery

      You look away from famine

      And hurricane

      You look away

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