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Untouchable ... You know those 'special needs'-kids?
The ones you love ... IF they're over there?
I had to really know how they feel;
Became one; cannot "unbecome"; and you don't care.
You don't care that I had to conquer death
To learn the miracles I know.
You don't care how ingenious I have now become,
Because-in telling you-I am 'too slow' ...
Too slow to be worthy of fulfilling desire
Though desire-fulfillment is what I do best.
But-looking Untouchable-the most "action" I get
Is incidental caress of way-over-clothed chest.
Now I see how the lepers felt-not truly sick!-
Only behaving dirty and fondling too much;
To be Christos, should know that infection's unlikely;
Just know you can make Clean everything that you touch.
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