the disappearing veil of christian politeness

when a christian is laughing along with you
&
enjoying your presence,
at work or while in a social context
&
then somehow by some random comment
the fact that you do not believe in the work of fiction they abide by
or
worship that infamous underdeveloped dramatic character from
nazareth
as they do,
you may get to see a human face quickly wrinkle up in disgust or anger
as if a pug
was crossbred with some kind of wild boar
whose snarling would wake up the neighbors
& whose filthy idiotic grumblings
are made only with the
purest absolute self-righteous certainty,
with a dash of condescension &
a couple handfuls of hope that there is in fact a
place where everybody who doesn’t believe as they do
will
one
day
finally
burn.

you may get to even see them turn completely around,
walking away from you as if you have suddenly lost
all substance as a human being &
while from out of the woodwork will come those that say
“we are not all like that,”
the fact remains,
they believe in the same ridiculous
fairytales.

they have read the book of revelation
they hope in their hearts that when their savior comes
that he will wash the earth clean of
scum like you
so that they will no longer have to answer any questions
about the validity of their claims &
they can all live happily ever after
baaaaaaa-ing in unison
& relishing in the fact that their enemies got their just desserts.