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Why do the Christians rage? the heathen ask.

Why do they trumpet prayer like sounding brass?

Why do they shove their muzzles up our ass?

The Christians rage because they hate their freedoms

and everyone else’s—but then again,

since when do Christians rage? These believers

are something else: they have taken the name

in vain—squandered the term on righteousness,

kidnapped Jesus, and left us sinners stunned

at Calvary. The god they worship hates

pale light through summer blinds, reflected sun

on morning walls, its shadow-barred white

beside the Mediterranean bed,

the glass of last night’s wine, the sacred head.