To My Fundamentalist Friends
and Fight Club Cronies
Like Letter-of-the-Law Lawyers
we study each line, phrase, word
for WORD & seeing as no word
or words express whole WORD
–-Truth and Nothing but Truth--
we feel obliged to turn and twist,
pervert & deprave so as to make
texts fit our Procrustean hospitality
and agenda: or God’s rather: not
my will but thine be done for crying
out loud; I'm just a servant of the
muse..
In the mean time, Spirit of the Whole
hovers like mourning, like forest and
trees, like know-what-I-mean, huh?
what I’m saying? do I got to spell it
out for you?
Choose.
Free willy/nilly. You can’t have both
spirit and letter: truth of the whole
and truth of parts.
No myn can serve two magisteries:
battle bragging-rights
or win the war.
Which?
Unless of course your Jesus walks on
waters and whispers into your ear like
a little birdy told you, like wings of a
dove, like immaculate conceptions.
You might could have it all then.
But watch what happens when
you try to say.
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