Toys

First voice that ever spoke

Secret word which life awoke

Fundamentals of place I am making

Slaves, rules and horses born for breaking

Pigs driven not drowning, Satan saves his bacon

Succoured to the prince of lies, Legion sty inside resides

Favour of the Lord of Hosts, aerial servants maintain his presides

Lots, lawns and latria, lissome attendants lingering, loyalty utmost

Leashed, lashed Nazarene flank, horrifying Lazarene miracle 

Delicate lavabo, the oft-self-held hand of the prelate

His ruby ring pucker dusted, wearing his forbidden wants

What about a horse makes kings, why God’s finger is less one ring

Why prayers rise like punctured balloons

Why hope collapses like an overfed dune.


Darkling kin can kindle evil’s favour, devil-sought their fervour prevails

Yet piety repaid with pain, punitive exile, punishments and puzzles

Even his pigment preposterous, his miraculous miscegenation in our windows

His missives riddled that old Mystery matrimonies and multiple Mary’s

Miscalculated moments, maniple-mapped sinister appendages minister

Mounds of mercy, mid lent and many lost festivals

Kissing necks in the misericord, dreaming of Christ’s anguishes

Tulip sweep of skin torn up like old carpet

Rindless hand terrified of the sun.

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