To the children of the muse
*Re-editied
1 John 3:18
By Naomi Jacobson
whose gnarled fingertips are a cry of virtue
of what glazed eyes whisper:
“i am not a creation
this is the result
of the hellish waybeing inside
the shell we shared”
with an eye glazed more
he shall mourn:she shall pity:
with violent desecration
the life drifted;
a stool on its side;
over the roof of a cookiecut house
in the center of the
batch
the feathered reaper booms:
“it was you! who so vindictively
breathed life into Him
in a cradle of powdered sugar
with noxious conditions
you did not understand; you did not understand
it is the blood on your hands
i sway gently before you”
integrity is godly, inquisition is divine
but he
was just a bundle of sticks, bound
together
by nothing at all
