abduction
(a draft about salvation)
we were taken away
from Eden
with Edenic living
whose fault
we don’t know
maybe everyone’s
maybe not ours
so much
because we were not there
except in some spirit
time and space
possibility
now we are held captive
and there should be
a ransom
since kidnapping goes that way
some amount
some prize
according to abductors
who have caged us in deceit
to call it living
so who must pay
to whom
and how much
the price might be forever
be everything
anyone could have
and pay the price
the price paid
which was a final deception
a trip
in which the rescuer
now gone would leave the rescued
untenable
not fit for anything but fire
the infernal fire
which is to say fire upon fire to
the glee
of the one who thought
who planned
who entwined
and who
in fact
led the absconding or ourselves
and now in victory
having arranged the killing
of the only one to save
until
this moment
this moment when it
turned out
there was a reason for the death
and it was
to guarantee a life
one life
all
lives
together have the chance
now
to be saved
and what weeps and what
gnashes its teeth but a
planner
the abductor
who thought that killing it should mean the end
and it should now
but doesn’t
in that we may choose
faith in our own supernal return
the one returned
who offers the returning
to anyone
and as plus with anyone
becomes
an all
a following
angels and us
perhaps
in faith then
by grace
we return and then
even better yet move forward
to the gates of Eden now
angel-unassigned
shall become a new Eden and how about
gateway to new Earth
by new heaven
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“The Rape of the Lock”
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Is a poem-story
About a theft of hair
(a basis for satire)
From times when
“Rape” meant abduction
(bad enough, though
if you know
The Fantastiks, then
you know)
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Even so, not a good
Word, made worse by
The way we use it
Now—given charge
And change
With reason
Words have power,
Don’t they? Sometimes
More than action: try
Proclaiming “dictator”
Inside democracy
(listen to the only
speech in Chaplin’s
The Great Dictator)
Or cry “freedom” inside
Tyranny
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Then there’s
“Joy” in a
Cheerless place,
Challenging the time
Another way
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Have a gentle day
And mind (and mine)
Your choice of words, and
Take comfort from
The people with whom
You don’t have to
Fret so much
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