Fake TV preacher

shepherding lost sheep

who believe that he can stay the wolf

while the water rises deep

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Drowning sheep believing

preacher will save their soul

while the wolf hunts them in daylight

swallowing them whole

This is the twenty-seventh poem of my personal 30-day poetry challenge to break away from the machine to think about things that don’t matter. I have no idea what I’m doing. – Jim

Black People in America
The Texas Way

Jim Mitchem

Writer. Father to daughters. Husband. Ad man. Raised by wolves. @jmitchem on twitter. First novel, Minor King, out now.