my oldest sister has found religion
but not in a good
way not in a ghandhi or perpetua
or meister
eckhart way
she has found it in the old unoriginal
self-righteous
way in a political way in a way
that has nothing to do with having
the ability to think
for yourself
or think at all
because you don’t need to think
when a mob can do it for you
and if you want to know what they
are thinking or not thinking (opining
I should say)
all you need to do is flick
on fox news

my sister by the way
hasn’t always been like this
the old her would think the new her stupid
and absurd
but there was a transformation
that occurred
one night
when she had drunk too much wine
and gazed at the clouds
and saw jesus floating up there

she told the story once
to my father and me and we laughed
and that made her rant and cry
so my father
tried to take her seriously for a moment
but all he could think
to ask was if the apparition
had a beard
and then we laughed again
even my sister laughed at that one
hot insane tears
streaming
down her cheeks she said
he did.