The Social Status of Exodus

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The Social Status of Exodus

Out of the hands of God

the aboriginal

muscle-pattern

with its ominously

cruciform completion

in view of propagation

indulged its uniform

imputation

of the image and likeness

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to satiety

and through varying civilizations

experimented in deformations

of contour

while fashion

and fanaticism disputed

with passion

the incompatibility

with his dignity

of exposing man

to the contemplation

of the insignia

of his origin

and continuity

Theological tinkers

and serious thinkers

attacked the problem

of dissubstantiation

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Some said

вАЬIt were better to cast it off from us utterlyвАЭ

And some took a plank of wood and set it

about with nails

and lay upon it

saying

вАЬThis will make us forget itвАЭ

Spiritual drapers

Popes and fakirs and shakers

decked it

out with oblivion

and let it

appear

to disappear

But to no effect

For men of a happyвБ†вАФgoвБ†вАФlucky vulgarity

relegated

this jewвБ†вАФjaw of general invective

to a hole and corner secretive

popularity

And absurd

as it may seem

the вАЬunprintable wordвАЭ

is impossible to erase from a vocabulary

And there arose another

greater than Jehovah

The Tailor

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вАФthe stitches of whose seams

He is unworthy to unloose

Out of the hands of Exodus

the Oxonian

seeming

a sunbeam that has chanced to stray

into a cutвБ†вАФaway

(Gentlemen

wear

clothes

with an easy air

of debonair

inevitability)

Clothed and shod

the tailorвАЩs concept of the man made God

(Sartorial peril of the yellow race

looking so out of place)

peoples the sod

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Under the shears

of the prestidigitator cutter

(who achieves

the unachievable Act of the Apostles)

the cruciform scourge

of conscience

disappearsвБ†вАФ

in utter

bifurcate dissimulation

leaving

only those inevitable yet more or less circumspect

creasings

in the вАЬlatest thing in trouseringsвАЭ

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And man

at last assumes his selfвБ†вАФrespect

And man with his amorphous nature

who defied

the protoform of Who made him

but has not denied

Him

obeyed

the tailor who remade him

and denies him

He is despised

this ostracized

fancier of travestied torsoes

weaver of figвБ†вАФleaves out of cheviot

who staked the plot

of manhood in his nobler form

The gently born

they turn away

from the tailor

Who knows?

вАЬMan that is born of womanвАЭ

Perhaps he chose

an occupation all too feminine

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Neither is this the reason that they give

(Thou shalt not look upon the face of God and live!)