Life After Death
(Unionist Poem #1)

 

"We're a family here."

        ---a corporate management clichè

 

Black propaganda begins as a chorus at home.
For there are readings on a dad, a mom, brother,
sister, or aunt; grandparent or the dog; the help
or dear in-law; that derive from a preacherman
in all of us, sitting on our supper table as a crozier—
readings that cannot be helped because some
complete parable simply cannot be told again or
otherwise asked or, worse, believed. Our only hope
in this Christian enforcement of a love society
called harmonious family’s the promise of truth,
enlightening us all in heaven—where we may cringe
from our judgments, beg our relations’ forgiveness,
even as hell is already too late . . . Being family
and Christian, one forgives (after the oppression),
hugging, kissing, happy to be dead/alive. White
propaganda begins with a united choir in heaven.

 

 

 

 

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