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Nothing Good

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Nothing Good

(Good Friday)

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Saint Andrew’s cross

Peter’s cross is upside-down

Francis

Who was not crucified

Favored the T, it seems;

He received stigmata

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The shape of history

The record of our story

Told in a symbol

Without words

One who knows no words

Inked or engraved

Still knows the story

Holding close

The symbol

Of enmity

Prevailed,

A death upon the cross,

Then hidden in the ground

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There, that’s done:

Both broken discipleship

And keeping pristine empire

Are served

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Such a cruelty of days

This day

To call it good

Nothing good about it

Really

We were at our worst

Nothing good about it

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Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

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True Cross

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True Cross

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It doesn’t matter

Anything

Going around

One by one by one

By two

Will serve

It is a symbol of rude

Death

An execution of

No one

In particular

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Ancient Egyptians,

Romans

Not-so-ancient Nazis

Executed criminals

This way,

Leaving displays

To teach

The rest

This is how much

We care

Should you deviate

From imperial

Reasoning

And the protection

We afford

The laity

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Add it

To the trash heap

On the outskirts

Of the city

Add two thieves

Say all were

Detriments

To the local good

Hung by lies,

They die

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Should any

Die in faith

Even in a final

Moment,

Knowing for the living

That goes down in

Consternation

(was the

death-bed profession

real?)

That is,

Thankfully,

Not our job to

Manage

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Two thieves might

Have gone

(their remains)

To a potter’s field

The third

Into a borrowed tomb,

Lent by faith

Itself and love

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So put two sticks

Together,

There’s a cross

True enough

For residence of

Faith

A common symbol

Even less

No superiority

To go

This way,

To carry into life

Nothing special,

Child of God

Like the one

Like anyone

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Photo by David Libeert on Unsplash

Kortrijk, Belgium

The Cross

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