Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Precious Indeed

enlighten this sinner
explain to me
why
you are so preoccupied
with death

the Jesus of your
jewelry
and ink
and songs
always
limp
and wordless
and finished
a stain on wood
affixed
and fixed

can you show me
an empty cross?
could you underscore
that?
make some hope
and affirmation
jump off the dust
and mildew?

tell me about
the man defying
Old Splitfoot
touching lepers and
kissing whores
and
saying nothing
whatsoever
about queers

oh
you're a Christian boy
and you've got

all five wounds to
prove it

because
in the alpha he's
a kind preacher
and in the
omega
he returns to earth
but in the interim
he's just plain dead
a corpse
in the b through y

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