Revenge 1

Of all the Bible stories that they tell,

This one to come is quite the most fantastic.

A sonnet being so damned inelastic,

I'll require two to tell it really well.

Well, now – the exodists from Egypt's hell

Met the mad Malechites who, dreadful, drastic.

Ferocious, tastelessly enthusiastic,

Fell on the Hebrews, and the Hebrews fell.

God made a memorandum. After all,

The Jews pursued the then correct religion.

After four hundred years he called on Saul.

"The Malechites," he said, "deserve the axe.

Spit the whole nation; roast it like a pigeon.

Don't leave a feather on their fucking backs."