Jesus Said

lay your thin harvest at plenty’s door; strip
your garments from disease’s kiosk. And
before you die, be kind to an embittered tyrant
and/or spouse. Write your good deeds
on the back of a hand, or scrawl them on
an unlifted finger with the diamond stylus
at the bench. When you come before the post,
raise the left eyebrow if you will be keeping
your corporeal form; the right, if new, or
applying for reissue. The number for help with
totaling worldly credits is unpublished
in the paradisiacal general record, but,
for corporeal retainers, can be found, with
public assistance, tattooed subcutaneously
beneath the perineal seam, along with various
disclaimers and warranties that may or may not
apply. Let it be noted: the ethereal peasantry
may only petition His Lord of Wants and Needs
en masse and that by appointment only.