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You’ve suffered your share. The worst

aren’t the predictable and cheap,

forgettable as newsprint—noble attempts

at the Trinity; ignoble attempts

to discredit evolution in twenty minutes;

bellowing about non-essentials as if they

equal Christ’s body and blood.

1. A minister confesses that he lacks

a poetic bone (reason to be scared).

Solomon read as Christ. The lover’s

“dark skin” evidence of her sin.

He ignores the obviously erotic.

You and your wife scribble notes

screaming out ridiculous exegesis.

2. A minister diverges from Scripture,

eulogizing a recently deceased

politician (the man self-admittedly not

a Christian). Disbelief, more than anger,

drenches you that fall morning.

(The latter arrives later). Never

have you seen your wife so angry.

These wolves materialize

while you count sheep.

You jerk awake, afraid

and furious, pray for those

lambs—that they didn’t swallow

lies as truths, that sharp teeth

didn’t tear tender flesh.