
Theology hijacks God
tortures everyone through
endless negotiations
declines ransom
and kills Him.
Let's riot!
Torch the brail libraries
of soteriological imperialists
who annex souls and bury the
sermon under the mount.
Logos is gutted in a logic gulag.
Love's verve heaves at the chains
of an –ology's self-aggrandizement
and not-so-subtly embezzled echoes.
From oceans of systematic backwash
swell counterfeit continents of dogma.
It's like this: once upon a time
God created a category for categories
and in a profoundly loving command
forbid the usurpation of their bounds.
But transgressions of knowledge
always occur in gardens of delight:
the uterus of sacred epistemology
was lashed open before the fullness
of time, aborted mystery writhing
under the microscope of “critical”
minds whose incestuous methods
need whipping into repentance
by a cat-o-nine gospel tales.
All that need be preached
—finally, powerfully—
is the bleeding mute Word
that hijackers in tweed blazers
crucify with their puny degrees
and newfangled myopias:
contagious forgiveness.