My Bible Verse Vs Your Bible Verse

My Bible verse versus your Bible verse. My rib versus your loins. My blood orange versus your green lawn. My salary versus your 401k. My nanny versus your neighborhood watch. My therapist versus your retweet. My palmetto versus your black bear. Versus your recycling bin. Versus your MBA. Hashtag versus poem. Promotion versus preteens. Your age versus my eyebrows. My word versus your yearbook. My wood stork versus your eagle. My estrogen versus your easy chair. My bossy versus your boss. My Etsy store versus your parking spot. My sons versus your social media. Tonight’s biscuits versus your board meeting. Biological clock versus business plan. My tits versus your tithe. My fetus versus your flag. My vote versus your hobby. Lie still versus back up, slowly. Versus, run. Gun versus home school curriculum. Bitch versus baptism. My neighborhood versus your neighborhood. My emojis versus your investments. Everything versus the Bible. Everything. Everything.

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Lorena Parker Matejowsky (@LorieMatejowsky) lives in Central Florida but spent her first 30 years in Texas. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Central Florida. Her poetry was selected for the 2018 AWP Intro Journal Prize and Best New Poets 2018 anthology. She is currently writing about shrimpers and the 1970s.