martin luther

by Adam Robinson

I don't like him

I hate his vestments

He was just a reactionary

He made the nuns escape in fish barrels

Martin Luther came over and said

"Where's the basement"

I said "Why"

And he said "Beer"

I knew back in his day

They kept it in the cellar

That's how they got on

What I didn't get was why

Didn't he know the cellar

Was below the floor

 

He consummated his marriage

While his friends held the bed

Up at shoulder height

That's how they got it on

In fish barrels what an escape

Thomas Aquinas was on the lam

When he wrote the Institutes

By "Institutes" I refer to the series of

Weighty Reformationist texts

Adam Robinson lives in Baltimore, MD, where he runs Publishing Genius Press. His first collection of poems, Adam Robison and Other Poems, is forthcoming from Narrow House. He writes for the Internet Literature Magazine Blog of the Future, http://www.htmlgiant.com.