Thursday, July 20, 2023

Nicene You

 

When I’m a bishop, I’ll communicate

With anyone who wants a wafer, mostly

Vanilla, but not requisite. If sin,

If stainless as a watch’s crystal, same:

Remission if your substance is like mine

Or if it’s not, if con or trans or bland

As angels fallen and they can’t get up:


But not till I’m a bishop. As a dean,

An 'umble shepherd, pastorally blue,

A spelunker who lost his ball of twine,

I am not worth attending to: I bleed

And count my corpuscles. We are too few,

Too scattered, and too thick about the ears.

I’ll call some Council, maybe. But not yet.


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