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“You Gonna Be Up All Night”

J.D. Isip

the black preacher on midnight radio warns
an emmm-hmming congregation
who might challenge him about, “Don’t nowhere
in the Bible say ten percent...” and he
laughing at their ignorance (though they are not)
says again, “You gonna be up all night!”
as I’ve decided against the porn and the dark room
of empty motions
and turned him on for a reprieve,
some easy grace about superhero Jesus
swooping down to hand me my mat and say, “Walk!”
this is not what I wanted

to hear
him tell it, I think to myself, now searching
through a million body frieze pages, to hear
him laughing all oooh-hoo “I’m tell-ing, you... yeees, sir!”
God’s got a sense of humor at least

live-chat rooms have that nostalgic 90s thing
when I’d type myself into an adult, experienced
enough to catch the innuendo, “I’d like to log onto you!”
so I pause when the offer blinks over the Coach
who just told a shirtless teammate, “How can I
keep you on the team, son?”
and he’s shirtless, too, because he knows
there’s gonna be hell to pay. But the memory
passes and I click to close the screen
but it misses and turns him back on
out of sight, just his voice under the teammate, under the Coach
“You gonna be up all night! Yeees, sir!”

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