Mary texts me at 3 am / booty call I’m sure / not that I can read Aramaic / she shows up half an hour later / panties bunched up in one hand / pomegranate in the other / afterwards / we smoke joints rolled from Pharisee scrolls / and I say do you think I’m going to Heaven / she coughs / why the fuck would you wanna go there / I stub out the joint on the headless / soldier sitting on my dresser / I guess I always thought the afterlife / would give me a second chance / Mary drifts below my hipbone / chance for what she says / lips sucking sweaty skin and hair / I dig my fingers around the back of her perfect skull / the answer, later: a chance to punch my mother in the face