Poems of the Week

Every Good and Perfect Grift

by Steven Kent

“U.S. Televangelist Jim Bakker, ensnared in fraud and sex scandal, dies at 86”
—The Guardian

See his Rolex, rings, and suit?
PTL (that’s “Pass The Loot”).
Damn, that dude was downright shady!
PTL (that’s “Pay The Lady”).
Far too many years he stayed on;
Far too many souls he prayed preyed on.