Religion

The
United
States
says
it
loves
Jesus

As
it
bombs
the
Middle
East.

Iran
says
it
loves
Allah

As
it
bombs
Iraq.

Iraq
says
it
loves
Allah

As
it
bombs
Iran.

India
says
it
loves
Krishna

As
it
bombs
Pakistan.

Pakistan
says
it
loves
Allah

As
it
bombs
India

What
a
shared
love

For
the
religion
of
bombs.

Tom Lagasse reads:

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Tom Lagasse’s poetry has appeared in Poetically Magazine, The Feminine Collective, Black Bough’s Poetry Freedom & Rapture and Dark Confessions; Faith, Hope, and Fiction; Silver Birch Press Prime Movers Series, Freshwater Literary Review, Word Mill Magazine, The Monterey Poetry Review, a half dozen anthologies and more. He lives in Bristol, CT.  Twitter: @tomlagasse. Facebook:  www.facebook.com/tjlagasse, Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/tom_lagasse

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Art: Montreal Rainbow (For Leonard Cohen), an image by Josie Vie (c) 2022. Josie Vie is just a soul passing through. She resides in Quebec, Canada.