The phone rings again it's Scam Likely,
it's America, that makes sense.
In December, nativity scenes now have GPS
implanted in baby Jesus.
The plastic doll is the most often stolen item
from a nativity scene,
according to news reports.
The GPS allows Jesus to be tracked down.
Only here in the Christian-ist of Christian nations
is the baby actually
stolen,
people must be
really
religious.
I'm waiting for the cops to show up and say, "we need to search your house for Jesus."
People talk about cults like they are crazy
but surely the Jesuits showing up in boats
talking to the actual Americans
and asking them to cut their hair
and carry a book
was a little odd.
What else can we do but dance with superstition
down in some voodoo love child of New Orleans
bathe in the snake dance and the Navajo drum
the sand castles and the gliding eagle
the mountains and the muttering
the peaks and valleys
the lost wagons the lost ways
who is anyone to tell you where to go
to find a light.
It's not a plastic Bic lighter, cheap and reliable
it's not a headlight on a train, a flashlight on an iPhone
nor a big fluorescent bulb waving from the ceiling
like a flag.