Going to Hell by Tony Pena

Saint Peter at the pearly

gates reads from a thick

leather bound book

featuring my failings

as a good man assuring

my descent so with nothing

to lose I offer my Tim Tebow

baseball and football cards.

Not a word from the man

Jesus named after a stone.

 

I throw my Hail Mary

offering a pair of mint

Playboys with Jessica Hahn

pics and good articles.

Apparently the rock ain’t got

any kind of sense of humor.

Merciless archangels grab

each arm like titty club

bouncers tossing the rowdy.

Goddamn it’s hot down here.

Tony Pena was selected as 2017-2018 Poet Laureate for the city of Beacon, New York. A new volume of poetry and flash fiction, "Blood and Beats and Rock n Roll," is available now at Amazon.  He also has a self published chapbook, "Opening night in Gehenna."  His publication credits include “Chronogram,”  "Dogzplot," "Gutter Eloquence," “Hudson Valley Transmitter,” "Red Fez," "Slipstream,"  "Underground Voices," "Zygote in my Coffee," and others. 

Colorful compositions and caterwauling with a couple of chords can be seen at:

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