Papal Conclave to elect a new Rover

The moral stupidity of 'holy men'
with chauffeur-driven cars
who imagine that singing in the Sistine Chapel -
or, at the other end of the hypocrisy-spectrum,
who carry guns at all times,
even in the pulpit and playing their guitars -
has anything at all to do with the simple
teachings of Jesus and his millenarian band
of family-abandoning brothers

is matched by the moral stupidity of 'scientists'
getting high on spending fortunes
trying to find out
if there was ever life on Mars.

When science is conflated and confused
with hope, progress, expectation,
it becomes mere religion,
the worship of dead stars.