i try to think
yet thoughts they come
neither now nor then
o wretched perversion
that follows such conversion
to become the Saul made Paul
or perhaps his inverse
the doubting Judas
deceived no less than Eve
by the footless priests
bring on the feasts
we shall surely drink
to our death save His
balanced on the brink of Paradise
a foot no less dipped in Sheol
than that first cursed bite entailed…