Chad Parenteau
Resistance Tankas, Reel 8
Meghan McCain Jesus Tanka
In the morning time,
Meghan McCain Jesus looks
and cries to Heaven,
Why have you forgotten me?
Heaven says, Stop talking now.
Rudy Giuliani Jesus Tanka, Take Three
Rudy G. Jesus
waves his silver in the air,
shouting to the crowd,
Who wants their thirty pieces?
I got my thirty pieces!
Tulsi Gabbard Jesus Tanka
Nobody had seen
Tulsi Gabbard Jesus, but
she says she was there,
waiting to be sacrificed,
for somebody to notice.
Donald Trump Jesus Follower Tanka
Trump has never died.
Trump can only rise and rise.
Trump will come again,
over all of us again,
calling his name as we do.
U.S. Steel Jesus Tanka
U.S. Steel Jesus
has died and has risen so
many goddam times,
every quarterly report
feels like it’s Easter again.
Chad Parenteau is the author of Patron Emeritus (FootHills Publishing, 2013). His work has appeared in Tell-Tale Inklings, Queen Mob’s Tea House, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Ibbetson Street, and Wilderness House Literary Review. He serves as associate editor of Oddball Magazine. His second full-length collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, is forthcoming.
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