Religious Instruction

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Religious Instruction

In mixed marriages

it is mostly the custom

for female children

to adhere to the maternal religion

While the Father

presides over

the mystical prattle

with ironical

commentary

from his armвБ†вАФchair

But by whichever

religious route

to brute

reality

our forebears speed us

(Perfection

being an obligation

shoved on to

the next generation)

There is always a pair

of idle adult

accomplices in duplicity

to impose upon their brood

ideals

erected upon such increate altitudes

that Man

in falling from contemplation

of a more simulacrum

has soused himself (in blood

since Time began)

Jehovah

вАФexemplar par excellence

of megalomaniaвБ†вАФ

the Whole Old Testament

of butcherly chastisement

to coerce humanity

to an вАЬassumed acceptanceвАЭ

of an abstract idea

And that Christ

came with his light

of toilless lilies

to say

вАЬFear

not

it is IвАЭ

And bowed the ocean tossed

вАФwith a poetвАЩs feet

which being dead

are suspended overвБ†вАФhead

neatвБ†вАФ

ly crossed

in anguish

and wounded with red

varnish

From these

slowвБ†вАФdrying bloods of mysticism

mysteriously

the somethingвБ†вАФsoul emerges

miserably

an instinct (of economy)

in every race

for reconstructing debris

has planted a face

in outer darkness

The lonely peering eye

of humanity

looked into the Néant

вАФ

вАФand turned away

X

OvaвАЩs consciousness

impulsive to commit itself to justice

вАФto arise and walk

its innate

straight way

out of the

accidence of circumstance

collects the levitate chattels

of its will

and makes for the

magnetic horizon of liberty

with the soulвАЩs foreverlasting

opposition

to disintegration

So this child of Exodus

with her heritage of emigration

often

вАЬsets out to seek her fortuneвАЭ

in her turn

trusting to terms of literature

dodging the breedersвАЩ determination

not to return вАЬentities sent on consignmentвАЭ

by their maker Nature

except in a condition

of moral

effacement

Lest Paul and Peter

never

notice the creatures

ever had had Fathers

and Mothers

They were disgraced in their duty

should such spirits

take an express passage

through the family bodies

to arrive at Eternity

as lovely

as they originally

promised

So on whatever day

she chooses вАЬto run awayвАЭ

the very

street corners of Kilburn

close in upon Ova

to deliver her

into the hands of her procreators

Oracle of civilization

вАЬThou shalt not live by dreams alone

but by every discomfort

that proceedeth out of

legislationвБ†вАФ