Friday, January 27, 2023

Memphian Lamentation

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Memphian Lamentation

 

Let us not point to the blood in the street

As if the murder were somebody else’s fault

As if the narrative belonged on a screen

As if we can be healed with a channel change

 

Let us instead look within our fatal selves

With every resentment validating the Fall of Man

With every snub murdering Abel again

With every lie sentencing Christ to death

 

Let us not point to the blood in the street:

We are all Pontius Pilate, washing our hands

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