Tommy Twilite - Jesus 9

Eleven bits of cloth
String peanuts
“A pearl is grit covered with spit”
Jesus 9
Doesn’t rhyme with God
Jesus 9
Means something else

This Jew
Knows his shoe
is more cardboard than leather

He knows
Tessier 7
is two points away from conversion

He knows
This dropp of blood
is worth more
than water mixed with wine

Jesus 9
is nobody’s fool

He has tasted his own urine
under the freeway

He draws pictures
in the dirt
that wash away in the rain

He laughs at the weather

Jesus 9
won’t call you on your cell

Jesus 9
doesn’t drive a minivan

Jesus 9
just wants to be left alone


He eats scorpions and wild honey
just like his cousin
John 3

Remember you asked to be the sacrifice

He talks to people you can’t see

One day
without fanfare
Jesus 9 was replaced

Nobody noticed
except a couple of crazy leftover hippie chicks
who ran around all day
screaming and crying
“He was Jesus 9, He was Jesus 9'

Finally
The cops had to section 12 ‘em

A few days later
I walked down under the freeway

I noticed that the stone had been moved

Inside the hovel
There was a pile of filthy rags in the corner

The stench was staggering

I heard a voice behind me
“What are you doing here? ”
“Get away from here, Jesus 9 is gone”

It was the two hippie chicks
with some guy I didn’t recognize

They pushed past me
with a can of gasoline

Somehow the guy seemed to vanish
and the two chicks were in there
splashin’ the gas around everywhere
and chanting something about Jesus 9
I beat feet outta there
and screamed that I was callin’ the cops

I heard the explosion
as I ran back up the hill

The cops came and so did the fire department

They never found the guy
or the two chicks

Jesus 9
was never heard from again

But I hear there’s someone
living in the park
who calls himself
Jesus 10

Tommy Twilite

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