Popular Poems About an Apocalypse

Autumn in America

Operatic Gospels
Are plagiarized from Hebrew legends
To sell Papal Ponzi schemes

To penetrate easter eggs into embryonic misogyny
With the premature TV evangelism of bearded patriarchs
Who preach to death row inmates
On the sanctity of life

And on the streets
Derelict prophets give sermons
To Armani clad business men
On giving alms to the poor

While poets in their garrets
Write sonnets in the autumnal light
Of the American sunset