still Monday
Bible study, pedantry, sorry
sigh
so however counting
today liturgically
is Holy Monday
if mostly
which
is
a Monday
to acknowledge spiritually
to slog through as with any Monday by
perception
of our culture
aiming for
Friday
Jesus is in Jerusalem
by
tradition
clearing out the Temple
having
final meetings with
strangers
maybe those who
came
to meet him
and what kind of take is this
on meetings
in
our culture
intrsansigent gatherings in
blank rooms to
variously
go through an agenda
then
leave in secular gratitude
maybe with ideas
for
the next hours
next days
or
religionless season
we also read
hear
of an encounter Jesus has
with the leaders of the day
not
Romans so much
as Christ’s own and it goes
badly
really badly
to reinforce a conspiracy
that bad
there will be a meal
later
shared momentously
founding Eucharist
Communion
and
impose a focus on command
to love each other and to be called
friends
who follow Jesus
then more final things
happen
with bitterness and
danger
in
fact
condemnation
increasing
so here we are on Monday
how to have it into
unmarked
by
attitude
Tuesday and Wednesday
what to do
how
to do it
how to have these hours and these days
if
in the spirit of one kind
or another
the spirit of the age
claimed by a few
or
the spirit of all ages claimed by one
then
offered to the rest
like and as
the choice for faith
and
to change the rest so that
the law
the code
come
through and all the love that is
in fact
commanded
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(x = space)
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x
Empirical
(about Judas)
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And what does it mean
Thirty pieces?
Not forty
Or twelve
A different sort of bargain
And a bargaining
For life
x
If he was a zealot
Then perhaps
The money didn’t matter
He wanted him to act
To wreck the Romans
Maybe the Sanhedrin, too
And bring
The final age
Crashing into the world
Let Solomon return
And David
Deborah
And Gideon
A greater king than these
Embodiments
A greater prophet
x
And let Messiah rule
Certainly
It’s him
x
Or else
The money was just money
And nothing just
About it
A small fortune
For the cause
Or for himself
Catharsis
And investment
Because we’d had enough
Of this kind
Of leadership
Through love
And loving invitation
Harsh words
The cleansing of the temple
x
Not nearly enough
For the emperor
Of a new age
And all of us
Consuls, advisors
x
Take the money
Recompense
Look for a moment
To secure
What happens next
x
According to our will
According to my will
x
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x
And was he put down?
What made him act this way?
Hurt?
Envy?
Unbelief?
Or maybe
He was the sharpest of them all
And knew the money was a catalyst
That at the moment
When we’re followers
And friends
He’d change everything
The guards of the Sanhedrin
The Roman soldiers
The region
The empire at last
And set a new one
That the prophets saw
But wouldn’t time
So we have to do it
Make the time
Make it when we say
Make it now
x
Now everything will change
Now finally we’ll have
What we want
Power
And justice
The way we want
x
Revolution
Recompense
We’ve only been fooling ourselves
Or waiting for a start
x
Well, here it is
We’re calling it
I’m calling it
x
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