Holy Smoker......

Published in Ugly Tree Feb/2006

Holy Smoker

Goldfish mouthed open

waiting for the holy hook

wafer baited with white grace

to erase the black pencilled

pages of our immoral souls,

sweet jesus will love us then.

One by one tongues unroll

god's red carpet receptions.

Father nicotine fingers

pushed god into us,

thirty five years later

he was arrested,

yet still I am trying

to prise the host

from the roof

of my palate.

John G.Hall(C)2005 .