Isaiah, Haiku and subversive no-saying

Isaiah 58 is a stunningly straightforward critique of religion gone rotten. The prophet catalogues those attitudes that turn religion into just another service industry dedicated to the haves, the always comfortable, the never hungry. Over-indulgence is by and large our way of life in the affluent north and west. Consumerism is the preferred idolatry of our times.
By contrast fasting, not having, not buying, not spending, is an act of subversion in a consumer culture, a demonstration of self control as critique of self-indulgence. Consumer self-indulgent religion was Isaiah's target then; his words still sting with relevance now.

The call of God to the church bearing witness in a society where poverty is at best tolerated and at worst unnoticed, is to subversive no-saying. Fasting is such no-saying enacted; it is a periodic policy of non-co-operation with those systems and powers that bind chains of debt, that rely on overindulgence whether food, clothes or technology, and that are expert in the arts of exclusion, and in those transactions that clothe the rich and strip the poor.

Recently I have begun to write Haiku - I'm attracted to the constraint and sicipline required to write within a tightly controlled form. In a world awash with words, Haiku compels an economic, verbal stringency - in counted syllables, 5x7x5, the poetic form embodies Lenten resistance to waste, even wasted words.

Lent Haiku
Isaiah 58.6-7.

Un-Fairtrade coffees
Solder chains of injustice,
To weigh down the poor.
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Food for the hungry!
Enough not obesity!
Slogans of freedom.
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Embrace the stranger.
Welcome asylum seekers.
Veto exclusion!
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Clothing the naked,
In garments of dignity,
We dress humanity.
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Liberating Lent!
Costly hospitality!
Isaianic fast!
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