Jesus Saves

Battle of Good and Evil in the Heartland

By: Charles Giuliano - Dec 03, 2015

Jesus Saves

Bleeding Heartland
Kansas
Flat and plains
Horny cornhuskers
Bible Belters
Far as the eye can see
Where buffalo roam
Waving wheat
Sure smells sweet
Stopped in Abilene
Ike’s hometown
Memorial Day
Passing through
Headed East
Presidential Library
Marble veneer
Dressing up
Dreadful architecture
Ersatz imperial chic
What did you expect
Dead center
Of nowhere
Giant crosses
Near porn shops
Lion’s Den
Franchise for sinners
Heaven and hell
Facing off
Jesus Saves
On billboards
Don’t seem to help
Them farmers
From doing stuff
In the barn
Pretty funny
Come to
Think about it
What them being
Republicans
True God fearing
Americans
And all
Trump country
For chumps
In pickups

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Reader Comments

"Slobs, chumps, jerks unite. You have nothing to lose but the contempt of those who write on shithouse walls."

Posted By: Jay on 01-10-2016, 06:46 am
"Ahh, sounds like you passed through my hometown, Charles. Scary, huh?"

Posted By: Pennie Brantley on 12-04-2015, 04:03 pm
"Just don't be too cynical, or they will win!"

Posted By: Jane Hudson on 12-04-2015, 10:58 am
"Spent 10 days in Abeline, KS. A Hopper hotel, a too-small tv in the cavernous lobby Habituated by two fixtures in their respective rockers, Dozing occasionally, Impervious to the creaking floor of footsteps and The monotone signaling a station, off the air. Engine blown in my '64 Corvair. Waiting for wired funds that never came, Meals in the same same; My new friend, what's her name, The waitress. And the wannabe, a lonely homosexual, The other salesman at the Ford dealership. Waiting. The funds waiting for me in Abeline, TX."

Posted By: Benno Friedman on 12-04-2015, 10:13 am
"The culture wars continue, and there is nothing artful about them."

Posted By: Larry Murray on 12-04-2015, 09:14 am
"Be a slob, get a job. Be a jerk, go to work. Be a chump, vote for Trump."

Posted By: jimmy midnight on 12-04-2015, 09:02 am