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For Halloween I’ll be Jesus You Be Mary Magdalene

James Croal Jackson

my cigarette-smoking badass waitress
    the Bible I’ll defenestrate at 3 A.M.

         Mary I went to Catholic school
while Josh played bagpipes at the Oval

Absorb tradition with sugary cocktails
          I didn’t say a word in the play

         as Pontius Pilate I wouldn’t
          have contributed

Watch men get crucified by wine
Watch women excise their seven demons

                  this party’s a tomb
                  of sacred skeletons

leave it to the wild dogs to feast
on the bottles of Jagermeister

        we drink blue glasses
        of Zombie in the corner

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