Deformities
It’s tripled Deuteronomy in length
That Allah-spawned Koran, iron nippled
In feeling, more than ninety proof in strength.
Anyone who loves it ends up crippled
By crushing combinations of its force
And numbness at the boring sameness of
It to the Bible, Hebrew stuff of course
Warmed over. Mercy and forgiveness, love
And all those things get mentioned, but (Jeeze!) laws
And blood are drowning, pulverizing stuff.
What’s not forbidden in these lines, these laws
Is only boring trash. We cry, “Enough! Enough!
We’ve heard it all before.” (No. Marriage to
Your siblings you do not have to eschew.)