#title Non Serviam
#subtitle (to be read horizontally & vertically)
#author John G. Rodwan, Jr.
#SORTauthors John G. Rodwan, Jr.;
#date 2024
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/415-summer-2024-2/non-serviam]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2024-08-20
#notes Fifth Estate #415, Summer 2024

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.