‘Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel
to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich
person to enter the kingdom of God.’
(Matt.19:24)

 

Nothing fancy, cover photo
lambs gamboling in field.
First post
a lovely affirmation.
Got Gabriel
to take a head shot
for profile pic.

By ten o’clock he’d been trolled
by multitudes
disgusted
with picture of Semitic man.
By noon the page went viral
governments shaken
by audacity. Religious leaders
calling press conferences
to disclaim.

The clock’s guillotine arm
slices hate and vitriol
into trackable segments.
Five thirty news leads
with Jesus takes down page
as Stock Market soars.

Michelle Hartman

 

Michelle Hartman’s new book is The Lost Journal of My Second Trip to Purgatory (Old Seventy Creek Press 2018). Lost Journal is the first entirely poetic look at child abuse and its effect on adulthood. Her other books, Disenchanted and Disgruntled and Irony and Irreverence from Lamar University Press, are available on Amazon. She is the editor for the online journal, Red River Review and holds a BS in Political Science-Pre Law from Texas Wesleyan University and a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from Tarrant County Community College.

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