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What need have I of Paradise, that many-coloured Heaven
where God and all his angels are in bed by half-past seven?
I’ll take damnation if it means a midnight whore I’ll be
and dance until the early hours and strip off for a fee.
I’ll share a bed with women - sod Leviticus’ call
there’s nothing wrong with lesbians and queers have a ball.
I’ll buy my neighbour’s daughters for a camel and a goat
and set them free of tyranny, of pious daddy’s coat;
for though he is a churchgoer and Heaven is his goal,
the way he beats his wife and kids denies he has a soul –
he hates the gays and women – they all treat him with disdain
that’s why he turned to Jesus and got on the bigot train.
Without the resurrection there would be no need for Hell
a carrot for the pious man; a stick for those that Fell.