i am catholic - by Bil Johnson

i want to scream
until my throat bleeds
the insanity of all things

and weep for the
athiests who don't exist
hanging in my lowly stocking

and wrap my regrets
in blinking lights
red blue green its all in the air

i want to gather thoughts
and unmanifested dreams
and---its all words to me

--its all green to me--

and shout to the ocean
trenches and plankton
proclaiming the world beautiful

and cure that ozone madness
with butterflies
and albino crocodiles

and name every star
flickering through impossible
sad atmospheric haze

and loggers will
fell empty skyscrapers
and we'll all work in redwood and oak

i want an epiphany
ignorance is not bliss
and god won't forget us. can't.

and we'll all believe in everything
because we know
nothing is real

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