the only good sex offender is a dead sex offender

selling t shirts
outside the lions' den
two for one
iron on superheroes
glitter
100 percent cotton
he was singled out
by the leper
messiah
singled out
by a bony finger
the illiterate multitude
frothy mouths
did then converge
it was josiah ben
bent down
left hand basted
in dried blood
of lions' prey
josiah ben
who gathered
then fired
the first stone
unsteady left hand
bloodied
to draw blood in spades
the blood of a t shirt salesman
the others did then follow
falling over themselves
to wield their morals
their moral code
unwritten but verbalized
many a drunken day
and night
by josiah ben
and it sounded good to them
and it sounded right by them
the morals of josiah ben
unsteady
hands bloodied
trampling over the patchy flesh facade
of the leper
messiah
on the way to extricate
the glittery t shirt salesman
from the living
from the illiterate multitude
from the believers
in josiah ben
unsteady
hands bloodied
moral and just