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