WHITE PREZ’S GOT A GOD COMPLEX *
Sez you look Latino
You speak Spanish
So you gotta be deported
Cause white Prez’s got a God complex
Sez don’t need no evidence of
Venezuelan boat trafficking drugs
Drone attack kills 11 aboard craft
Cause white Prez’s got a God complex
Sez there’s big crime wave in D.C. despite
DOJ data showing D.C. violent crime at 30-year low
Sends National Guard to nation’s capital city
Cause white Prez’s got a God complex
While wildfires torch forests, floods drown cities,
and record heat kills our neighbors,
Sez global warming is not too hot
Cause white Prez’s got a God complex
The enemy is within, not without, sez he
So declares war on all those who won’t
close their eyes and bend their knees
Cause white Prez’s got a God complex
* With apologies and love to the Last Poets
Vision Quest *
Jesús goes on vision quest into the Judaean Desert. After he had gone without eating for 40 days
and nights, el diablo appears under a blazing hot desert sun. “Tienes hambre, hommes,” he asks?
“You kidding,” Jesús replies? “This desert like our river valleys and forests is crammed with
heaven, and every bush here afire with God. I’ve been feasting every day.”
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Then el tentador takes him to the holy city and has him stand on the highest point of the temple.
“If you really trust God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written, ’He will command his
angels concerning you, and they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your
foot against a stone.’”
“What’s your problem, cabrón?” Jesús replies, “If God wanted me to fly, he would’ve made me
with wings.
The tempter then takes him to a very high mountain and shows him land from the Dead Sea to
Lake Galilee, Samaria, and Galilee. “Behold, the promised land—a land flowing with milk and
honey which God promised Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses but is now a colony of the Roman
Empire. All this land, which was once your ancestral homeland, now belongs to pagans.’
Jesús shook his head grinning. “Tell me, something I don’t know?”
“Do you like the pagan Romans occupying the Holy land?”
Jesús shook his head.
“Then what are you going to do about it, boy? The Romans are the the strongest empire the
world has ever known, and it’s gonna take a lot of blood to take back the Promised Land.”
“Are you kidding me? When you love your enemies, you don’t kill them.”
* Excerpt from a work in progress titled DECOLONIZE THIS GOSPEL
God’s Day Off *
One day when Jesús went through the wheat fields on the Sabbath, his disciples were picking the
heads of wheat.
A man with a wide white beard on a round face, popped his head above the stalks of wheat.
“Hey, you transgressors! This is the Sabbath, you’re supposed to be resting, not working.”
“What the fuck are you talking about, Ruco?” Bartolomé replied, “I’m eating not working.”
“You’re reaping than eating,” the old man replied. “God created the heavens and the earth in six
days and on the seventh he took the day off. Since then, man has worked six days and rested on
the seventh day.”
“Well, in the first creation account in Genesis, the world was created in six days but in the
second one, it took only one day,” Tomás said. “So, either the world was created in six days or
one day. Both accounts can’t be true.”
“Yes, but both accounts can be wrong,” Natalia said.
“Blasphemy!” Judas Iscariot exclaimed, “Gehenna won’t be hot enough for those uttering such
heresy.”
“You missing the point, guys,” Jesús said. “The Sabbath was created for Adam and Eve. Adam
and Eve were not created for the Sabbath.”
“How was the Sabbath created for Eve when she still had to take care of little Cain and Abel on
Adam’s day off when he got to rest from all the hard work he had done during the past week?”
Joanna asked.
“Maybe it was because the Torah was written by patriarchs,” Natalia replied.
* Excerpt from a work in progress titled DECOLONIZE THIS GOSPEL
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