via sesso [doug duffey]
during their babylonian captivity
men worshipped men
functions of the two-headed
the sacks of only boys
imperial leg bones
severed hands
the skeleton of napoleon
blessed forever
after 37 their bodies would teach
the lusts of speech
apis bull rites
poets exchanged degrading passions
burned green-tinted hearts
dried kidneys and livers
confessed sins as grave as murder
the excommunication lifted
there was creature art to see:
men in baths public
receiving their women or
catamites 6 inches to half feet
pliny had wood
veins like leaves
past archivists tell
pomponius, baby,
so twisted by the new testament
had biblical books recycled
into butcher paper
to create indices
many volumes
shiny as lacquered rhetoric
a more transparent image
july 3, 2009
[C] 2009 DOUG DUFFEY
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