Nobility of Blood
Nobility of Blood Dear Lord, this Thanksgiving all the drug-lords promise to thank you for AIDS, although it has not made them transcend into the 21st century. They are still caught up in superficial things like money, BMWs, and killing. We thank you for tent evangelists, brothers and sisters alike, breeders of hate crimes, that reject the perfect beauty of homemade remedies and blood transfusions. Lord, forgive my arrogance toward the medical community and appoint faith healers to pharmaceuticals. Dear God, thank you for allowing me to live on the periphery of society, where nobody asks yet everybody tells. Thank you for the innocent illusion of my open exhibitions of affection toward Omar. Thank you for the rapid spread of HIV in Africa, where water, food, and medical supplies have always been scarce or costly, where rape and violence towards women is beyond control, where children have no choice but to fight for br