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2 poems
JEWS FOR JESUS
Why don't they have a Christians for
Mohammed?
Moslems for Buddha?
Hindus for atheism?
polygamists for nuns?
Why don't they prey on animists, wiccans agnostics?
How do they get on the evening channel 2 news?
What's with all their cartoons,
bright colors,
fliers ready for children?
Sometimes I sit in the subway,
spot one of their posters,
look at an Israeli announce his best friend is now Jesus.
I wonder how we got so attractive.
Trains didn't always love us.
TWENTY FIVE
PSYCHOTIC BURNT ALIVE IN INDIA
Manacled to woods to rock to community safety
were they at least aware it was an accident?
When the flames lit up from a discovered match
it blew beyond the bidi.
Insanity melted like candles
it purified each mind
made them see fear
clear as glass.
They forgot boredom
the loneliness
their betrayal
The village far off
as a water pump.
Miriam Stanley has
featured at many NYC venues including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe,
Dixon Place, The Bowery Poetry Cafe, and the Cornelia Street
Cafe. She is also senior editor of Rogue Scholars Press and
roguescholars.com
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