This Poem was Submitted By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2015-05-17 11:59:43 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Two Religions

Two religions move through me. I am a pipe between two buildings,     a conduit upward and downward. The world sees nothing. It hears a swishing through the pipe, And merely knows something is happening. Now is upward. Man ascending. My Rosary is dumb and waits for the downward movement,     for God descending. That might be some time: two months, one. Each religion has its sacred texts. They curse and spit at each other:     "Jew, Heathen, Papist, Pagan": the pipe is also a gauntlet. Now, the buildings have been visited by an invisible plumber. The pipe purrs. I rub it like the back of a cat. It is nice, as if there were a meeting between man     ascending, God descending. "But that could never be."  I hear you, I hear you.  A hand moves, like the lips of Satan in the Garden. Someone has flushed in one of the buildings. I am ascending now. "Heathen, Pagan." My soul is fearful, but my cock is hard. 

Copyright © May 2015 Mark Steven Scheffer


This Poem was Critiqued By: Joe Gustin On Date: 2015-06-06 20:49:18
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
OK WoW. Talk about a poets ending. Pretty much speehless


This Poem was Critiqued By: Medard Louis Lefevre Jr. On Date: 2015-05-21 02:08:51
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
This made my night, I am still laughing from sheer joy. God, I miss pure, true, original art. And this included one of my favorite subjects in the juxtapositions of religions with plumbing and a touch of Dylan Thomas ("dumb", the force that through the green fuse etc...) and even one of my cats is rubbing up against me (my left hand typing). Great write, post, and many thanks. I needed this. Medard I intend to read your other posts but I have to get up early to get estimates on garage doors replacement (back to the mundane).
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