Sky Writing Liars

Sky Writing Liars
christians will find god
on titan or phobos
moslems, allah in a rave
on saturn
buddhists, the prophet,
eating hoagies
light years away
where death shows movies
to dickinson

down red neon highways
with dead junkies
in a border town graveyard
tossed like a bent rusted
license plate
an obsolete war machine
to kill russians in kansas
created by mad congressmen
who no longer sleep with their wives

texas governors murder
the fairy sons of whitman
congress has the smell
of death on them the
grief of countless screaming embryos
muffled by pounding hip
hop on the radio
prophecy with death
as a consequence

sky writing liars
above gas lamps and neon;
ignore the old men who
dream of lions on a beach
create egg crate bookcases
to store pornographic pictures
of your soul secretly
taping phone calls
from the angels in the backroom

this constant dogma
of flophouse circus preachers
needing thousand dollar mouse traps
poor die on cold park benches exponentially
offering god an eight dollar cigar
for a dream cantina
in a thieves market
holding a pistol on moms
in a three dollar robbery