COMEDY Poem: Jesus Christ Rat, by Atticus Eaton

A Jesus Christ Rat just came up to me
He asked if I’d like a cup of tea
I said no and he called me a hoe
I guess thats just how these things go

I saw him again down in Tumbuktu
I had no clue what I was to do
He said Here son, now dont you see
You got to try summa my special tea

Nowhere else will you find as good a brew
Made from the cleanest flowers blue
Fine I said I’ll bite that hook
And a cuppa his special tea I took

Well I woke up in a world of green and blue
Very far from Timbuktu
And I shouted at him the fuck did you do?
He said I freed your mind
You bit the hook and I pulled the line
And brought you to the land of the three headed shrine

There we met the god of tounges
Who colored the air coming out of my lungs
It said since your here come with me
And took us where the sky meets the sea

We stayed there a few hours more
Learning what was beyond the door
Truths that I cannot say
For they would melt your brain away

I suddenly woke as if from a dream
The rat nowhere to be seen
Where he went I’lkl never know
I guess thats just how these things go

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Atticus Eaton is a poet and author who has been previously had a short story published in
Asheville NC’s Mtn. Xpress. He is 15 years old and goes to Asheville High School