Choices
From the Book, Unworthy Lives, Page 68
Copyright © 1998, 2007
Jason Lester Atkins
985 Fleet Drive, #347
Virginia Beach, VA 23454
Together, we sparkle as conscious spirits
in this second circle of golden light,
while Lazarus laughs in gentle, sad amusement:
Watching beautiful Grecian girls
making a Goddess effigy
of "The Infinite Creator Spirit"
making it into their gender image:
Placing small head atop huge breast and belly,
all reigning over the magic triangle:
Creating a mythical dominion of separates
guiding future generations,
like Bounarroti's ceiling:
Lazarus laughs in saddest pain,
watching the followers of II Papa Re,
flagellating and burning Giordano at the stake
for what he said and wrote, not for what he did:
Leaving his pyre smoldering three hours on the street
amusing the strolling populati:
Lazarus dwells in these repeating mysteries,
watching man's repelling choices:
Always knowing, no life ends with a period ...
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