Martyrs Are So Last Millennium (from Ich bin Gregor Samsa! Ich bin Gregor Samsa!)

A Christian-fundamentalist

in a cowboy hat once said to me

verbatim:

“If I say I’m going

to throw a brick at you,

and you don’t believe me,

and then I throw a brick at you,

is it going to hurt?”

It was a striking statement

to which I responded

verbatim:

“If I say I’m not going

to throw a brick at you,

and I don’t throw a brick at you,

is it going to hurt?”

He took off his cowboy hat,

wiped his brow

and handed me

a pamphlet about god.