Judas Prayer

Woman your fine ointment - brand new and expensive
Could have been saved for the poor
Why has it been wasted? We could raise maybe
Three hundred silver pieces or more
People who are hungry, people who are starving
Matter more than your feet and hair
Judas to Jesus and Mary Magdalene,
Jesus Christ Superstar

How moving.

Heart rending.

Utterly hypocritical.

These words of Judas...

How very insincere.

Contemporary too.

To claim to care for,
represent,
serve
the poor,
and not do a thing,
is to kiss
the face of God,
Judas-style.

Countless prayers and invocations
punctuated with
and mouthed
in the name of the poor,
and not incarnated,
is to sob
and pray,
Judas-style.