Chad Parenteau
Kurdish Jesus Tanka
Kurdish Jesus
never fought at Normandy.
Kurdish Jesus can’t
perform miracles while he’s dead,
so he’ll sit out World War Three.
Chad Parenteau is the author of Patron Emeritus (FootHills Publishing, 2013). His work has appeared in Tell-Tale Inklings, Queen Mob’s Tea House, The Skinny Poetry Journal, Ibbetson 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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