A YOUNG MAN'S AMENUENSIS

A kid named Gentry
got stoned
not for adultery
but for being an adult
spoiling his metaphoric
future by gambling
with his pastime
by cheating at cards
sharing moist goodbyes
with girls in blonde curls
or twenty year old
boys with toys
to make him sex crazed
at eleven
he walked out of Sunday
School when he heard
of heaven
once asked the local rabbi
about Passover's
leavened bread
and the Sadduce's
objection to the resurrection
of the dead,
for the kid was a genius
everyone said so,
some called him Jesus
never a Pharisee
or Phillistine
always had red wine
with his erection set
on football games
he always bet well,
went into the navy
loved the sea
and had an experience
with God
and went into ministry
to save himself
from his own hell.