The Church of my youth
the Holy Roman Catholic Church
(a sobriquet as undeserved as 
Holy Roman Empire)
gives me so very many reasons
to despise her
not least of which is
the stranglehold
of ridiculous old men
who call the Church
HER
as they rape her

But those old men
have ordained readings
for each day
from God’s word

And those old men
or their direct ancestors
decided for themselves
what was worthy 
to be
GOD’S
inerrant word
declared so by those 
raping sodomizing old men

God’s 
WORD
as filtered through them
includes the book called 
Tobit
where today I read 
of a young woman 
Sarah
possessed by a demon 
Asmodeus
who strangles her husband
on their wedding night
before they have intercourse

But, wait, the best is yet to come:
This happens seven times
YES! 
seven times to seven young men
before the angel 
Raphael 
intervenes
to save the eighth
who, sadly, was not named 
Henry

So although I would love to despise
the Holy Roman Catholic Church 
completely
HOW 
can I not retain some affection
for an entity that includes
TOBIT
as 
divine word
filtering 
GOD
to 
ME?