Poetry |

“Like Christ Overturning The Moneylenders’ Tables”

Like Christ Overturning The Moneylenders’ Tables

 

Hectored, hard-chasing journalist,

Target in an irascible homeland

 

That both lauds and despises

Your banner of candor and daring

 

(Uproarious marathon in which

The fiats of neo-cons,

 

The fluttering of fierce slave-fans,

The steady hiss and malaise

 

Of alt-right foolscap never stops).

Like go-for-broke Christ

 

In the desecrated temple of the fourth estate,

From outcry to repeated outcry,

 

Keep ferreting, disclosing, demanding

What’s true, dauntless reporter,

 

And what’s immanent,

In the name of humanity and gallantry,

 

In a time of subterfuge and festering delusion,

Of unerring rubber bullets

 

And demolished cameras,

When two and two are tantamount to five,

 

Keep crying Geronimo!

Keep upending the tables —

 

Contributor
Cyrus Cassells

Cyrus Cassells, a 2019 Guggenheim fellow, has won the National Poetry Series, a Lambda Literary Award, a Lannan Literary Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award. His 2018 volume The Gospel According to Wild Indigo was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas, translated from the Catalan, appeared in 2019. His twin 7th and 8th books, The World That the Shooter Left Us and Is There Room For Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?, are forthcoming from Four Way Books.

Posted in Poetry

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.