NVN Good God Bless the USA Friday
“The God Bless the USA Bible” by Gilbert Allen and “King Donald Version” by Rick Mullin
THE GOD BLESS THE USA BIBLE
by Gilbert Allen
Cartoon by J.D. Crowe
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What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?
And they bargained with him for thirty pieces of silver.
—Matthew 26:15
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Verily, verily Donald Iscariot hawking the Holy Word with MAGA zeal offering Jesus Christ pseudoreligiously for sixty bucks. Just twice thirty! A steal!
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Gilbert Allen, a member of the Travelers Rest United Methodist Church, already has a Bible. For more information about him and his work, check out the interview at https://slantbooks.org/close-reading/interviews/belladonna-beautiful-but-deadly-qa-with-gilbert-allen/ .
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KING DONALD VERSION
by Rick Mullin
Cartoon by Dave Whamond
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I’m very friendly with the Pope of Rome. In fact he likes the Bible I put out. I have many, many copies in my home. Bound in leather and embossed with chrome, Trump Bibles make the stories sing and shout. I’m very friendly with the Pope of Rome who’s traded in his New Revised, that tome of lies, for something we can talk about. Trump Bibles. Home just isn’t home without my Book of Acts. Amen. Shalom. My TV pals agree the Book has clout— Joel Osteen and the Pope of Rome. And I mean all of them. The Astrodome has never seen the crowds that we turn out. There are many mansions in my home and proverbs in the many fields I roam. I spread the Word and rid the world of doubt. A holy boatload’s on its way to Rome. I have many, many copies in my home.
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Rick Mullin is a painter and poet living in northern New Jersey. His latest books are Huncke, Exot Books, and The Basilisk, Dos Madres Press.