What Rough Beast | Poem for August 14, 2019

Chad Parenteau
Jeffrey Epstein Jesus Tanka

Air hisses with praise
for Jeffrey Epstein Jesus
who died for his sins
so that Hillary Clinton
could inherit them, stand trial.

Chad Parenteau is the author of Patron Emeritus (FootHills Publishing, 2013). His work has appeared in Tell-Tale InklingsQueen Mob’s Tea HouseThe Skinny Poetry JournalIbbetson Street, and Wilderness House Literary Review. He serves as associate editor of Oddball Magazine. His second full-length collection, The Collapsed Bookshelf, is forthcoming.

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