THE SECOND COMING—CRYPTO-CHRISTS—2.0

(h/t W.B.Yeats and St. John of Patmos) 

1.

Turning swirling enthralling gyres

Crypto-Christs gaming for virtual thrones

Exchanging fungible grace for mimetic fire

Babylon’s block-chains mining for bones

When was there ever this many pop-up emperors

Scheming to stamp their likeness onto forbidden coins

Scribe their names onto hotel holy-book covers 

Force their grifting fingers into every fiscal loin

Not everyone who calls Jesus “Lord Lord”

Wants to sell you collectible idols or an oil oligarchy 

Compassion is also alternative currency

So is death; so is heteronormative-patriarchy  

2.

I’v seen the red dragon rise from the deep

Dreaming with the mescaline angels of my youth

When a third of the stars fell into the sea

Spooking world markets crashing 401K’s

Falling falling falling the great city of fables

False prophets serving bull-market temples

Where the ghost of Karl Marx tips over tables

Facebook Caine unfriends sister Abel 

Spiritus Meta Mundi beckons clickable souls

But the centre won’t hold so its led to the slaughter

By Beast and Dragon and laughter of their pitiless offspring

Crashing the lamb’s wedding party for its immigrant mother

Come out of her people whose eyes seek the light

Surely surely surely another coming is at hand

When Bit-coin Barabbas buys Gethsemane’s rights

To the songs of the bridegroom and the blood of the lamb

Pax.  

Pax.  Daniel Imburgia