For any man who has a defect should not approach
dwelling in the Lord’s presence.
the idea that God is a man is as ridiculous
as the things on this list.)
(Unclear if they mean your nose went
down with a ship. Look for treasure!)
(Didn’t God make everyone’s limbs?
Surely that’s not their fault.)
(We’re, literally, adding insult to injury here.)
(Finally those long eye-browed maniacs
are getting what’s coming to them!)
(No comment.)
the weeping sores.
from holiness, it seems.
Let all who are anything
There’s enough of God’s food
to go around
Los Angeles poet Rick Lupert created the Poetry Super Highway (an online publication and resource for poets), and hosted the Cobalt Cafe weekly poetry reading for almost 21 years. He’s authored 23 collections of poetry, including “God Wrestler: A Poem for Every Torah Portion“, “I’m a Jew, Are You” (Jewish themed poems) and “Feeding Holy Cats” (Poetry written while a staff member on the first Birthright Israel trip), and most recently “Hunka Hunka Howdee!” (Poems written in Memphis, Nashville, and Louisville – Ain’t Got No Press, May 2019) and edited the anthologies “Ekphrastia Gone Wild”, “A Poet’s Haggadah”, and “The Night Goes on All Night.” He writes the daily web comic “Cat and Banana” with fellow Los Angeles poet Brendan Constantine. He’s widely published and reads his poetry wherever they let him.
