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Slam Dunk Me O Lord: John Donne

John Kendall Hawkins
Mar 11, 2021
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Jesus 1, Satan 0

In my life, on the road to Calvary,

bouncing a basketball painted like Earth,

I came across a mad old wanderer

who offered me a Moody Blues album,

and gazed up the Hill to a hoop of thorns.

He said, “The water was turned into wine

and back next morning; they were dehydrated,

and He passed around effervescent tabs of B.”

He wore a Tee, hexagram 56,

and moved away, fading, an ancient ghost.

I climbed the stony path to Golgotha

and stood quietly at the free throw line.

They say a white man can’t jump, but I did --

slammed Earth with a punctured fizz through God’s head.

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