As if my carnal soul had not been raped

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joel
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As if my carnal soul had not been raped

Post by joel » September 7th, 2005, 6:42 pm

As if my carnal soul had not been raped
and worked on like some abstract masterpiece—
dark fist-rage decorations on a post-
life virgin trust (the almost size and type
of hearts; anatomy’s dry irony)—
you still ‘to be’ don’t realize my ‘am’
holds certain claims on you? Fidelity’s
objective truth does not subject to ease.
Sweet demons of my growth: I cannot damn
you now, divorce you from what history
has proved my love (idealist broadcast hype,
experience of grace). Who I loved most,
who slapped my face for trust: please never cease
to know that you are just as I am shaped.
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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Post by judih » September 7th, 2005, 10:10 pm

brilliantly said, joel

a touch of grace in abject betrayal

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Post by hester_prynne » September 7th, 2005, 11:30 pm

This is really good.
Reads like an intense, deep, face to face conversation.

Powerful, tasty, satisfying.
H 8)

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Post by ~K » September 8th, 2005, 6:06 am

Ah...your words set me adrift in pillows feathered with heaven's issue.

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