Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Poem for Tuesday, October 20, 2009


Transubstantiation

And it came to pass that
the body of Christ
has been wedged in your
esophagus for the
past two          equinoxes

Scriptures and parables
echo off your teeth, over-
powering the formation
of palatal and velar
consonants

You can't even say His name
or His father's name

His blood trickles
down your corporeal
caverns, leaking like a
corroded pipe, blocked
by His               body

Just enough trickles to
make you wonder why
you traded your Bible for
bubblegum and if the
ozone layer is merely
God's bathroom

Do stars combust with blasphemy
or are they unrelated

Either way, you suddenly
understand that Death 
occurs when you can 
fully swallow and digest
Him

Heaven is the glass of
ice cold water to wash
Him down, river rapids
rapturing towards your
poor empty             stomach

And if there is no glass of water
for God's sake, don't swallow


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