The Christians Jesus, Ramera and Bonnie Jeanne
came in together. Bonnie carrying the lit white
devotional candle that was her thing.
Ramera reading from her handwritten facsimile
of the good book, Jesus knowing the words
by heart graciously dictating parts
but she hadn’t had time to do the entire book.
Jesus raised his hands declaiming like a lunatic,
everybody getting that he was talking
to his unseen father. “Bless this mission
and these children of god! Be they saved
or unsaved let them find your light and come home!
Guide them on their journey oh heavenly father!
Protect them in this hour of peril!
Say, did I ever tell you the one about the rabbi,
the beggar and the *******...stop me if you’ve heard it.
So the Rabbi says ‘how much for a two-for-one?’ get it?”
Ramera was already drinking, Annabella
looking on with concern. Ramera wasn’t that big
to begin with and now she was mostly alcohol.
Drunk all the time and hanging out of her clothes
the little sister had no concern for her soul.
She was saved many times over for a certainty.