The legal lists
Were longing
With who hurt
And who not heard
Attesting too
How much they love
They’re enemas
Only wading
For sue a side
As eminent just us
And inevitably knot
Passing the smell test
This is a poem about the intractable mess of trying to love your enemies and kill them as well. American Christianity generally considers pacifism a quaint way of life, tolerable in direct proportion to its relegation from the halls of power in church and state. American Christianity has bought rather wholesale into war as a practical necessity — the necessity of evil, that is. Wince again, the necessity defense is the greatest offense. Is the oneness of humanity to be cleaved by the body of Christ? For badder or worse, the inconvenient truth of dying for one’s enemy reliably leaves American Christians more than cross. 
At best, nationalism, and at its worst, imperialism, become the legal ism for such a knotty morality. And if any prophets may bedevil such an undertaking, their fate is bound in the hands of a certain high priest, possessed buy inescapable logic: “You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.” (John 11:51) Yep, to gain the world and halve the whole world parish. American Christians all to often worship a bastard son, pax Americana, a modern day roamin’ umpire, overruling with just US, and as per fuming so extravagantly that we don’t even realize we fail the smell test.
May awe of US unearth humility enough to execute amorality, in a creation fit for all — for Christ’s sake!
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