XIII
Subliminal, inchoate, malformed thought
Torture the soul, fragment the paradigm, -
And yet my aspiration is sublime,
Cursed and coerced by troops of musts and oughts,
Tormented by the Cains, Iscariots
Ganelons, the brood of faithless time,
Legitimate heirs of history's constant crime,
Cold machinations of heroic plots.
Epicene, adipose, the Prelates on their thrones
Justify God with their theology,
Condemning men and women out of hand.
Well may the Saints rattle their crumbling bones.
It's easy to condemn the Holy See -
Refuge of Sanctity in this Wasteland.
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XIV
Deadbeat escapement, think you release the time?
The opalescent word disguises all.
The ancient catchment interrupts the fall
And renovates the long-forgotten slime.
Fresh earth now celebrates its vanished prime,
New life repeats by heart the faded scrawl,
Blotted and smeared, responding to the call
Of the occult, eternal paradigm.
Time seems to change direction now and then
And in its wake brings humours and caprices,
That ease the movement, keep the mainspring tense,
And fuse the hours with women and with men
Each in his time and place, bizarre ecclesis,
Witnessing here and now the grand pretence |