Nativity

Adoration, giftwrapped representations

Of his future station

His crib his grave, his nailed-on fate

Magi Christchild star-heavy nightsky

A looming moon 

Like someone bored an onyx bar

To reveal the tallow paleness of a bigger being’s arse

Low, harsh, judgemental, imperious, and very very serious

Wiping my eyes so hard it draws tears, trying to impede delirium

But there it is, as before it had appeared,

Seeming to scrape the dune rims.

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