Are You Ready?

When Jesus comes
back it’s
not going to be
easy.

He’s
going to want to know
why you never saw that
beam in your eyeball

and why
you never cut
that right hand
off. Maybe

you thought it
was bad the first
time, with all
those devils

getting cast
out, and the dead
brought back,
and people

walking on water and
everything. Well,
this time it’s
going to be

worse;
there’s going to be
shit
flying.

--Richard Morris

[From Assyrians published by The Smith, 1991]