Bad Friday
What makes this day good?
The corpse hangs on boards like a scarecrow
as if sacrifice sanctifies abuse,
makes suffering a sacrament.
a culture of cannibals creates God
in their own image: The Perpetrator, known
By more domestic names.
(They are good at public relations.)
Crucifixion! so sanguine, so surreal
masquerades murder as miracle,
paints a beatific vision on the hearts of the devout.
Beneath the peeling veneer, still a victim, an excuse
to make more
victims, when in Rome. -jwh-
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