Methodistic:

methodism. I do not even

 attend I am 

inattentive  Embodied 

disembodied. Out.

 South cast OutKast oh worship 

I Don’t

worship the screen. 

Cantankerous. Divergent Neuro 

divergent 

I can’t 

not look. 

•••••

We went back the

whole photo-op family

re-enacting decades ago

taking up an entire pew

I held out nearly

didn’t go

I can’t not look

I can’t not look

I CAN’T NOT LOOK

the screens the

screams screaming at

me    I 

held a red hymnal in 

front of my face nearly 

the whole time

•••••

Belonging

The world is my parish

The world is my classroom

The world is my church

A garden/cathedral

Have no fear

•••••

Work

Do all the good you can

The kingdom come

 in every way you can

Thy will be done

As long as you can

On earth as it is in heaven

•••••

The snakey hiss

Of trespasses trespasses

From the whole congregation

As a body

Embodying and moving past

Befallen reptile reptile brain

but we are new 

creatures divine 

in Christ living new being new acknowledging that hiss

Embodying that former hiss

And then

led not into temptation

But delivered from evil

•••••

Milton, Wesley 

and me

the worst help me

to be the

best (I can be)

circuit riders and croakers

the west and the frontier

the stigmatized

despised

church of the poor and blacks

even having women preach

praying exhorting

promiscuously