Facebook, Twitter, TikTok …

   Facebook, Twitter, TikTok …

When great Gods go, sly half-gods come.  They take

The holy landscapes over for their needs.

Christ disappears and in His stead a snake

Comes dangling, offering shining huckster beads

On tv screen or deep from cyberspace.

They might be harmless glistening trash for trash

To buy on infomercial channels.  Chase

These gods and worse will come.  Twitter will bash

With Trump’s deep lies and little godless gods

Called trolls will intervene with godless stings.

These trolls will bash with anonymous prods

Surrounded anonymously with wings

Of devils on the internet.  Allah

Is altered to a whangdoodle wallah.

Phillip Whidden