God's Death

Nietzsche said "God is Dead".
I could never take him seriously.
God was too much always on his mind.
The letter he wrote
just before his last irrevocable slide
was signed:The Crucified One.
If God had died for him
He died the way Ricardo did in Ballo
when his lover's husband shot him from behind
and he slowly sank to the ground singing,
sinking and singing,
singing at the top of his lungs half a dying hour.

Charlie Otero had a different experience
of the death of God
when he came home from school one day
and found his father on the floor
strangled with a belt
and his mother naked and strangled with a cord.
As a man stabbed through the heart falls,
God fell in a heap that afternoon
instantly,
completely.
There was no singing at all.