Artwork © Ira Joel Haber

 

Donald Trump Jesus: The Return, Part Two

It was morning in mourning,
one more day of reckoning,
scripture long past counting.

And Donald Trump Jesus
declared onto the entire
Space-Time Jesus Community,

Look, I no longer feel
obligation towards saving
any of my followers.

I have zero time for any of
you Jesuses, who have done
nothing for me lately, ever.

American Jesus is a t-shirt.
A license to print money, sure,
but I already have all the money.

Communist Jesus, what can I say?
He only exists as a lonely meme
cowards share with each other.

I told myself, There ought to
be a law against Jesuses, and
Pam Bondi said, There is.

And so you’re all illegal
aliens in my reality, kinda
like that other Jesus meme.

Because I’m tired of miracles
that create untariffable fish
that do nothing at all for me.

New miracle. I can now enter
Heaven easier than I can jab
needles in the eyes of camels.

I’ve trained myself on several
camels, and I am ready to
create an afterlife 2.0!

I’m gonna have supporters who
are all penitent up above
and unrepentant in Hell.

And on the day of my judges,
I’ll need all bodies to rise
so I can take my place above all!

 

Chad Parenteau is Associate Editor of Oddball Magazine.

Ira Joel Haber was born and lives in Brooklyn. He is a sculptor, painter, writer, book dealer, photographer and teacher. His work has been seen in numerous group shows both in the USA and Europe and he has had nine one man shows including several retrospectives of his sculpture. His work is in the collections of The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York University, The Guggenheim Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum,The Albright-Knox Art Gallery & The Allen Memorial Art Museum. Since 2006 His paintings, drawings, photographs and collages have been published in over 300 online and print magazines. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Creative Artists Public Service Grant (CAPS) two Pollock-Krasner grants, two Adolph Gottlieb Foundation grants and, in 2010, he received a grant from Artists’ Fellowship Inc. in 2017 & 2018 he received the Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA artist-in-residence grant.