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Cruxifixion


One half of me is covered by insurance

and one half of me

supplemented at the end of this poem.


Staple me to this poem.


Yesterday I went to Mi'raj, in the metro tunnel

when I got off, I was the prophet of the next station

A prophet who left no message, after hearing the beep.

Hung up the phone

and into the camera, he stared

and said: I choose the Emerson 2-door fridge for it is both spacey and subsisting

The rain turned severe

the sky, white

the workers were busy working

and I was scoffing my lunch

father martyred on TV.


O Sun

do tell

can you bear falling

down from that height

jingling

into my coppery bowl?

Up until now

my only income has been

in your comings.


I will go

to wherever it goes

with wherever it can

into the slough.

To the sun

I will say

hello

to the rivers

farewell.


I will flip

the bird to the sky.


O my suffering

without taking in a syringe

how come you came into being?

O my Passions

o

aw

how were you frequented?


Staple me to my cross.


A cross that had lost its flesh in Libya

had escaped temptations by choosing

a safe brand in electric wall-heaters

its blood had heated

dripping

from here

to

Sudanese civil wars.

But, having hung up the phone

having thanked the respectable pundits of the show

he turned off the camera, and came restlessly towards me

in came the scent of gladiola and jasmine.


We brought the last obstacle, the last monster to justice

and saved the princess from her stir

gained lemons in return

and together

we got into the limousine

we became the blessed yes

we became the blessed

we became the blessed