jesus was a hookah baby
 
two teenagers where
i used to live stole a large
baby jesus statue from a
manger at this shrine
 
they took it home
& bored some holes in it
& made this enormous
makeshift bong
 
& then of course
they smoked out of it
 
i imagine the baby's belly
packed w/hydro
glowing red-orange
as the boys inhaled
 
the smoke making
its way up the tubing
like a ghost rising
& gathering in the
branches of their lungs
 
citizens of the town
were appalled
the cops were on the hunt
 
for the two young wiseman
stoned out of their heads
who'd nipped the greatest story
ever told in the bud