Black Santa, Grape Juice

you look like a man with a

bell who sells White Jesus while

he prays for snow so his

wife can feel at home when everything

is green and still breathing, even if

her hands clutch at snowflakes

that melt in her gaze.

you look like ice on the road,

a teenage boy wearing shorts in

a blizzard so everyone

can see his Nike socks.

maybe I don’t know the meaning of Christmas

but Scrooge McDuck

is based on Andrew Carnegie, a man

who tried to balance the weight of

steel with libraries full of no books.

maybe I don’t know the meaning of Christmas

but Jesus with blue eyes is a white supremacist

fantasy with an angel on top and there

are more religions with God as a woman

that a man with a beard and a sword.

there is amniotic fluid on the cross

and people are much more comfortable

with blood.

you look like a man

who only cares about the Virgin Mary

as long as her hymen is intact, a man who

understands nothing about the hymen like a

health teacher in Texas

and maybe I know

nothing about the meaning of Christmas

but the church is too haunted and I have seen

enough holy water evaporate to need more

than you.

#HS