The Christian Right (1)

Michael Peach

Should peace at last to Israel come,
For sure the Christian Right will try
With padded claws her heart to strum,
With crooked alms her soul to buy.

Jerusalem
8 February 2005

How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and

If the complex causes of the catalytic Sado-masochistic syndrome Of

Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve

Whereas the good and loving One God Endows all humans

Though for many reasons The “two-state solution” Is now dead,