The Last Two Stations of the Cross

Thirteenth and the Last (Stations (!) of the Cross)

           

            Thirteenth: -the body of Jesus is laid in the arms of his mother          

                        Reader: We adore you oh Christ and we bless you

                        Mother: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

                        Reader: Her tears ran down her cheeks:

                        Mother: Because she had none to comfort her

Because I want  

his absence beatified I want it

to prove its miracles.  I want its

limbs to skip, I want its

hands to caress my hair.  I want it!

Not to be! Not this wet weight.  Not this,

this ... I want it,

something other than want-

my gut in my throat I want

God I want him back, alive to me back I,

            Fourteenth: - Jesus is laid in the tomb

                        Reader: We Adore you O Christ and we bless you:
                        People: Because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world.

                        Reader: You will not abandon me to the grave:
                        People: Nor let your holy one see corruption.

instead of, Jesus, God, Mary,

what sin I want

noise his noise I want

his scabs his sweat I want

it all on my lips I want

not these hard white beads I want

his knuckles under my thumb, his feet I want

before they run with him run away with him I want him.