Non Serviam
(to be read horizontally & vertically)

Not going to do it

Or even pretend.

.

Go to church and swear

Obedience to inscrutable

Deities whose very existence

Strains credulity?

.

Not going to do it

Or even pretend.

.

Made-up stories starring

Anthropomorphic, jealous

Super-creatures with

Terrible tempers

Earn nothing from

Reasonable people but

Scorn and derision.

John G. Rodwan, Jr., essayist and poet, lives in Detroit.