East of Eden

Life bi-polar
Neutralized
Uncharged
Viewed in America
With politically correct
Head in conservative-white sand
Uncritically counting blessing
Seen thru’ pastel lenses
In the eye of an ersatz beholder

The religious right
(Being neither)
An oxymoron
Devilishly pious
Preaching pharisaic virtue
With sanctimonious hypocrisy
Righteous intolerance
Based on selective literalism

Exegetic scriptural illiterates
Uttering imperious homilies
From partisan pulpits
Blind to the exclusionary focus
On earthbound false gods
“Two buttocks of one bum”
Sharing a comfortable pew

Bridging the unholy alliance
Between (as H.L.Mencken put it)
The Jackals and the Jackasses

Myopia uncorrected
By pseudo evangelical
Rose-coloured glasses

Creates the illusion