Even as a Child Holidays Were Solitary

Some Christmas ThoughtsI've never associated being alone with the negative aspects of solitudeI never view friends as gone if they are absentOr even if they are old and not activeWhen I see people we take up where we wereOr with what's now as if no time had passedToday on the communal treadmill in my buildingI watched religionists on TVJoel Osteen was being smoothly sensibleCreflo Dollar was being a DJ for no reason I could fathomI don't believe in Christmas I guessAt least in hip hop versions of Jingle BellsIf Jesus is anything he is an ignorer of holidaysHe will throw over any occasion to do what strikes him as importantOften what is important to him is solitudeWhat we have in our Bible is a puzzleThe disaster of religion is fundamentalismThe disaster of religion is rationalizationThe disaster of religion is assuming we know things we cannot knowI know Jesus because I knew people who worked in his nameThey tended to be like Jesus in most thingsIconoclasticTolerantHelpfulAnd intensely democratic These are the values I cleave toI am pale compared to the folk I take as mentorsIf anything saves me it is that I am not ashamed to speak truthWithout one shred of claim to be worthy of it
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