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Poetry: Betrayal

by Melisande Luna

Created on: May 20, 2007

The Mission of Holy Men

"Your salvation is nailed to a cross." - Curandero

Bring the Padre alkaline and bitters
to quench his insatiable nature.

-the scent of copal

cloying and sweet

O succulent boymeat sacrament-.



I confess this sin -
in Father's goblet, tainted wine,
the root

of vomit and salt;
last rites and gorge;
a bent-spine demise,

this and the scatter
of bones.

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