Very good rhymes, Grasshopper, though I find the actual argument ultimately
unnteresting.
bw
SallyE

on 11/6/03 10:22 am, grasshopper at [log in to unmask]
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> Warning- there's a slight possibility that this could cause offence on
> religious grounds, so please scroll down only if you're prepared for that.
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> Carnival
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> Through unmarked years of tables, chairs and chests,
> did Christ the artisan live hormone-less
> and haunt his body like a distant guest?
> Or was he raised at dawn by lust, to guess,
> when harlots brushed by in their drunkenness,
> what painted lips and ready throats expressed?
> Did he feel once the prick of sinfulness,
> and touching hot temptation, whisper Yes?
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> And did the Devil set no fiercer test
> when Jesus wandered in the wilderness?
> What truths did wolf and jackal tongues confess,
> and did he raise his splintered hands to bless
> torn ewes, the eagle with her bloodied breast?
> Who taught him that long howl of tendered flesh?
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> grasshopper