Speculative Fiction and Poetry
In Answer to your Relic Query
David C. Kopaska-Merkel
Kendall Evans
His day in court proved a kangaroo trial
They found his sin to be most vile
For sipping his gin from the Holy Grail
They sentenced his ass to an orbital jail
Somewhere far out in the Oort Cloud
Where he soon fell in with the Oort crowd
Subsequently rescuing the Holy Shroud
of Turin
From a bunch of slant-eyed alien Djinn
Whom he later fell in love with, begetting
A noisome gaggle of miscegenetic offspring
Thanks to the miracles of
tailored gene manipulation
And recombinant spiritual regeneration
But the story doesn’t end there, you
Really must visit our new-
ly remodeled Interstellar
Reliquary
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