A Warning to Young Fundamentalists Preparing to Go to University

Can you see how the learned expositor
finds it necessary to exhume the remains
of his historic faith
            … the historic faith as we’ve defined it…
in order to produce the anti-plague serum
that will release him from his higher criticism?

Watch how he walks these darkened streets
with his academic head held in place
by a column of Frankenstein staples
poking out above the collar of his womanly robes.

Do you see the special urgency
of his so-called evolution?
Call Drs. Rieux and Benway
but his infection is spreading.

Only a return to our accepted truths can help him now.

If he won’t accept the answers we’ve found in Genesis,
or bind himself with religion the way our fathers taught us
there can be nothing left;

nothing except the stink of fisheries.
He must not want to be saved.