Tag: faith

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 05/17/24

James D. Casey IV

Snippets of Dubious Wisdom # 4

I guess being born and raised
In an exotic land far away
Does affect one’s outlook on life.
Maybe that’s why East and
West coasters both think we
Midwesterners are a bit weird.

They say there’s a chance that
China may hit us with a nuclear
Bomb some day. That’s silly.
The Russkies done called dibs
On that years ago.

It is the normal procedure
In critical thinking to consider
Both sides of a case/argument,
Then, ignoring logic and truth,
Totally disregard one view and
Swear to god that the mind-set
You chose is the stuff of factual
History.

Mister Squashed Possum says,
“Crossing the road is easy.
Avoiding the traffic is the hard
Part.” (Flattened Bunny agrees.)

There have been times that
I’ve been called a fool. Then,
This fool realized that ‘fool’
Was just a matter of opinion.
Suddenly, I was no longer ‘the’
Fool but surrounded by many.

Faith

I wind up in this church
Where, for communion,
Everyone sips from a
Large communal cup.
After one takes a sip,
The priest wipes the
Rim of the cup and
Turns it a bit for the
Next person’s sip.
When the old lady
Just ahead of me
Left a string of slime
Dangling from the
Cup’s edge to her lips,
I figured that was it
For me. I’m not sipping
From that cup, even if
They wiped it with
Jesus’s underwear.
Underwear?

Born Curious

I was born curious
And, while being
Strapped in, I just
Had to ask the man
At the switch, if we
Were to be using
Alternating or direct
Current. No answer,
Just a spark, a hum,
And a frying sizzle.
Do I smell bacon?

©2024 Daniel S. Irwin All rights reserved.

Brother Dan

Daniel S. Irwin (artist, actor, writer, soldier, scholar, priest) is still in hiding in the hills of Southern Illinois and doing a damn good job of it considering no one is looking for him. Which, in itself, is a change considering some of the things in which he’s been involved. Yes, no longer the gun-for-hire mercenary, smuggler, counterfeiter….don’t print that. Author of seventeen books, work published on-line, in magazines and journals world-wide. Latest work can be found on Horror, Sleaze, Trash Magazine, Beatnik Cowboy, The Asylum Floor, Rye Whiskey Review, and Cajun Mutt.

Cajun Mutt Press Featured Writer 09/22/21

James D. Casey IV

the pecextat trilogy

1.

but still the rose of sharon blooms a little
just even & the search for the dead rat
futile again
still

now listening to the scanner for weather
check it gainst my hip ache

some testament of faith still or
some indication

that nature the youth ministers warned about
that all my ex-girlfriends’ mothers

saw

some parliament of cast-off owls
wind mad & oppositional curious
eyes wide hungry for more than

what the deacons outlined as what
we had the right to expect

2.

ex
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pecextat

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e pec ion tat

pe e ta x on i

3.

not some AARP commercial this: not like those white backlit Sunday morning ones either you know the ones tween segments of Meet the Press with Tim Russert snarking polite at politicos & praying for one just one just one Buffalo Bills Super Bowl win christ just one then fading into some oceanic dream white sand like St. Petersburg Florida near that giant pink hotel no working people can afford (private beach) maybe a yacht or maybe a calm ratless mountain morning like those later on commercials for ED meds that make you ready when the moment arrives ® & when it does make sure it don’t last more

than 4 hours (poor woman) or maybe it was one of those happy lighthouses before returning to upstate Tim praying for Buffalo cuz that was more likely than the triumph of democracy

come to think maybe
it is
exactly like
that

©2021 Mick Parsons All rights reserved.

Mick Parsons

Mick Parsons’ work has been featured by Train River Press and published in Thimble Magazine. It has also appeared in Unavoidable Disaster, Contemporary Haibun Online, The New Southerner, Pegasus, Antique Children, The Smoking Poet, The Dispatch LitaReview, The American Mythville Review, The Licking River Review, Inscape, and on semantikon.com. He is the author of two poetry collections, several chapbooks, a collection of short stories, and a novella. He’s organized open mics and readings all over the Midwest. He publishes new work often on Instagram (@dirtysacred). He is also the host and producer of the travel story podcast, Record of a Well-Worn Pair of Travel Boots.