About the bête noir, Saint Paul: A poem 

You know, if he laughed, 

he’d have his glass belly 

all cracked up, like a mirror 

hit by a sledgehammer! 

So, he doesn’t laugh as much as he plots,  

To keep wily-taleing the world.  

If liars brought down truths for millennia! 

You know if he grins, his teeth 

would turn to Medusa’s strands 

and his tongue would fork like 

the serpent that impostered God (For, he is!)! 

He may pretend to all he is – as candid and  

innocent as the Church’s priceless novitiate, 

who doesn’t carefully genuflect to the cross 

And the truth is his (when did he hijack it?) 

But that is what Saint Paul is all about 

Caprice with the well(mis)-intentioned knowledge 

that he must have all to his advantage, 

All that he has to grab and all that to eat as well! 

As if stealing the truth is no strangeness (never enough), 

he steals the identity of the truthful on top of that! 

And yes, his belly may crack up with lusty guffaw 

And his teeth fall out of their gums with corrupt greed! 

But see how he continues to lust! See how he lusts! 

He desires to have everything else, 

but the fish of the deep sea, where he actually belongs! 

Saint Paul is the master beacon/ deacon of the Church(!), 

whose wooden pews have rottened and mildewed 

and stink with the barbary of its crimes, and Saint Paul’s own! 

And now, Saint Paul doesn’t want the oblique Church; but,  

in fact, all that the real righteous, James the Just, possesses! 

Published by montecyril

Hi, I am Monte Cyril Rodrigues and live in Melbourne, Australia. I am a retired journalist. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I've had voices and visions all my life. I think it is a spiritual experience, my doctors think otherwise. I am a deeply spiritual person and keep having experiences with otherworldly realms.

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