The Passion
Your legs are white
shameless gates.
The milk
of infidels
flows within the sterile place.
The flow
abates and you feel betrayed.
That your fathers never dreamt
this much is certain.
No old man ever sat with his fingers lost
in the sliding braille of legends.
So much he asserts,
I know his ways: the love's more
careless than the act of truth,
and the meeting of minds
less hygienic
than that of bodies
I know his ways,
an artist, with the onefold
gaze of a blind man
and a brainchild screaming
from the roots of his sex
crying
'Ease for the spleen
'Ease for the spleen!'
of which he is the victim
- you are merely the weakling
the glove within which his five
lost fingers toy
with the myths,
and the worm
uncoils, like the serpent
in the garden, to be
milked of its venom.
Not evil, merely blind.
You are a crumb from the loaf
broken by the Host, the
Christ with a dewdrop
on the end of his nose.
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