Modern-day Psalmists
plying their trade via pithy sayings
basic fonts, splashy backdrops
portmanteaus of 
varying interpretation 

revelations

shifting dunes rounded by
prevailing winds as arid, 
accepted gospel
lacking lyricism 
posted for the world by
self-anointed prophets

claiming persecution, occasionally 
lapsing into lamenting angst
bitterly masquerading as wit
pleading cases to merciful 
gods/laptop Pharisees 
issuing agreeable protestations

never to grasp ‘liking’ 
is not prayer

weeping ideograms do
not denote benevolence
gaped-mouth ‘wows’
cannot replicate true, godly awe

like biblical counterparts
exhortations to repent, reform
delivering thunderous, 
threatening, visual praise by way of 
pictorial concatenation

oblivious to concepts of mercy, conflating 
holier-than-thou with holiness

Facebook is my sheep, shepherd
I shall not want for others

those who disagree are my enemies
I immerse myself in blue pastures

scrolling paths of self-righteousness
finding goodness in my followers

all through my days

Ummm . . .

Amen?

– Mark Lucker

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