End of Reverence

BaptismBaby

‘If the kindred be wild,
I will not baptize the child, ’
Crookéd–letter humpback
Church taking stock
Of relations out of wedlock :

Inner ministers
Of misery, grifters
Of sanctus spiritus,
Misers of charity ;

Judge not,
You juggler of pigbones,
Poser with cobbed colon,
Preyer of prayers
For pieces of eight and power
Over the wistful .

May the Redeemer
Slap one cheek
And the other in turn
Of the pardoner
That turns away
The blissfully born .

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