Tilted Halos Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

An esteemed sports figure,
Conducts a news conference...
To reveal his taste for sleaze.

And I turn on my TV,
To see the sleaze marketed.

This sports figure announces,
His cheating filthy ways.

I hear the minister reveal his demons.
And from a pulpit,
He declares he has sinned.

The star of sports,
Has had an assortment of sexual trysts.
He reflects a generation raised up with this.
Sexual pleasures and enhancements to aid...
Are marketed and advertised everywhere these days.
Decadence is as common as a child heard cursing.
People are witnessed disrespecting themselves...
With exposed abandonment.

And yet...
Those self righteous deceiving as hypocrites,
Come together in a collective judgements passed...
To say how appalled they are,
By confessions made...
At a news conference!
And none with their tilted halos...
Have been observed to walk on water!

And none are alarmed...
By a standard of life,
Once said to glisten with quality and values...
That now floats in gutters of swill!
Garbaged as a consciousness accepted!