I have sat back in amazement
And watched the religious man
Post a hard and cautionary meme
That condemns the very practice
He regularly commits himself—
As if it could not possibly
Be relevant to his own behavior.
And I wonder at how he
Must have got hold
Of a different Jesus than the one
I have read about—
Who would have scalded him
With a rebuke about his blindness,
Even as the man was busy
Posting memes about blinded people.
He is proud, it seems,
That he knows the warning
And passes it along to others,
Playing a role in this world
That he, no doubt, counts as important,
For he is the teacher of good things,
With hardly an apt thought about
Being the doer of good things himself.
