//the modern gospels - narrated prose
Channel: Jean Marx
Date: 31/01/2021

First upload, hope this finds you well. 

Song: Kai Engel - Reprise
Narrator: Rev Ishere 

//the modern gospels

against the billboards
the neon signs
the streetlight pamphlets 
the dystopian gospels are preached 
with the unholy cacophony of evangelization
reverberating from inside

here you'll find the trampled fairies
those amongst the pavement crack weeds
doing lines of pixie dust at the bar
while drunken oracles hand out wisdom
for which they'll be too drunk to remember

the tattered angels with bloody, wearied smiles
smoking cheap, dollar store cigarettes
lit on the blasphemous burn of their halos
while the devils they dance with
the church forgot 

the tramp by the street corner
is Cerberus, dusty and forgotten
while Hades flirts with a girl
with promises of another round
promises of a night to remember
 
their wings tattered
their halos dim
their mediocrity
their lust

in the process of discovering our divinity
we have sold our souls 
to the gods of consumption
we are being forgotten
tomorrow will not remember today