Fundamentalism

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Neither Logic nor  Sermons Convince
                                                   (Whitman)

”Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress”
 
No frigate like a book rowing across the Atlantic,
bicycling to Arkansas, hiking to Maine from
Georgia, climbing the Devil’s  Tower.
Golf.
 
     “Old men should  be explorers.”
 
My womb with a view’s a dessert farther than
my small carbon footprints reach.
 
Men  used to sit on flagpoles. 
Set themselves on fire: their
unique terms of desire.
 
Palms callus from ocean-stroking,  neck: sun burns.
Brier patch, brambles, &  rhododendrons o my.
Petons slip sliding away. Working my  handicap.  
 
Confessing hate, bias, prejudice, & annoyance don’t
annihilate ill will but amuses the savvy, irritates the
conscientious & something's to be said for that. .
 
Shameless at last.
Shameless at last,
Lord god all mighty
I’m shameless at last.
 
Guilt galore, sure, naturally
& of course: no getting
around guilt my original spin.
 
No one competes for Resident Fundamentalist;
I’ll fill that gap-niche for a  summer, row my  boat:
plug a hole, excavate a bottom line—dirty work &
someone’s  got to be doing it: foundational process
--bowels in an uproar.