In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

  • Ecclesiasticus (V) and: Wisdom of Solomon (XIX) and: Wisdom of Solomon (II)
  • George Elliott Clarke (bio)

Ecclesiasticus (V)

1. Wealth is not Power! But Wealth buys Power.

2. Even kings are seduced—purchased—poisoned—by Wealth.

3. The problem with billionaires? They're rich:Their golden shovels can dig a billion graves.

4. Plutocrats are pissed off royally—if not worshipped as cinematic magnates.*

5. Envy not the triumphs that the worldly trump!They're gonna plummet deep into Hell!

6. They are exceedingly analand also supremely cannibalistic.They will regard you as an unfucked ewe,or as an unbutchered sow.

7. Spurn the delights of devils!In the end, their organs, revolting, disobedient,war against their brains.

[Halifax (Nova Scotia) 20 avril mmxvii& Windsor (Nova Scotia) 21 avril mmxvii& Enfield (Nova Scotia) 21 avril mmxvii]

Wisdom of Solomon (XIX)

1. Post-Flood, the world was scoured clean—sanitized, baptized spic-and-span.Gone was overhangin clouds;up leapt grass outta recedin waves.

2. But sinners spawned new Oppression;so that serfs again swung low into cotton;or cotton-pickin machete swingers wadedinto sugar-cane jungles;harvests became boodle in treasuries;warhorses got harnessed to chariots;chariots got outfitted with scythes;the plutocrats took commandand assigned preachers to inform the poorthat their hungers and pains result from Sin. [End Page 233]

3. Commenced afresh Corruption.Virgins' ankles embraced centaurs' hooves;axe-murderers swung at turbans;scabrous kings gibbeted seraphic, droop-winged nymphs.

4. Spurning bumbling hubby and fumbling groom,Mamas sold pussy for bread.

5. Anger tripped up their heels; Lust dizzied em.Down deep, deep down, they plummeted,while angels cheered on high,jeering at these flaming, crisping falling.

6. The degenerates screamed, Basta! Basta! Basta!*Friday-faced, gloomy, the harlots charred,becoming Hell's incinerated inmates.

7. Globally, frogs and locusts burst outta cold mists,and wracked green crops brown and black.

8. Lions turned sharks, killin for sport, not nutrition.

9. Animals and elements mixed up—as if trumpetscould be beaten like drums.Likewise, crows became blizzardsand coal became wolves.

10. Fire now ate up water.

11. The iniquitous toppled into the dark liquidity of crypts.

[YAM (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) 30 mars mmxvii& Ottawa (Ontario) 10 avril mmxvii]

Wisdom of Solomon (II)

1. Idiots posit that because the dead stay dead,Life is smoke—once the fire's snuffed,it's gone, and no trace remains.

2. All our edifices are scheduled to be ruins.

3. Our flesh is mist; our bones are mire.

4. The fool preacheth, "Our beings are shadows."Once dumped in the earth, we vanish forevermore.

5. "So let us swallow wine and rose petals;take whores for sport and maids for progeny.

6. "Best to prove nimble at Fornication,predatorial at Fucking. [End Page 234]

7. "To scarf vaginas and anuses—as terse and as vacuuming as a gulp.

8. "Strip-mine nymphs, pick-axe dicks deepin their fishy caves.

9. "Pop monsters outta insidious virgins.Their turmoil is more like hatchingthan giving birth.

10. "(Be unhappy to avoid Adulteryor to see quarrels quelled.)

11. "Let's torture the bedridden and giggle at their howls.

12. "Let's steal the food and drink of the poor,to redouble their hellish Misery;

13. "Squander Digestion with alcohol.Wolf down pig, pig out on pork,worry pig-meat lie a dog.

14. "Let's toss seniors into shallow graves,toss dirt over em, then dig em up,

to guffaw at their terrorized faces.

15. "Let's prop up actual corpses—half-decayed, bloated to Corpulenceoutside the grieving family's door,so that the survivors, drawn by the stenchof exaggeratedly putrescent tissues,are nauseated and/or struck downthemselves by heart attacks."

16. "Let's shit on the religious,for daring to pooh-pooh our Pleasure,for naysaying our blasphemies.

17. "Doubt will flare up as we burn their books.

18. "(Better to crucify such busybodiesuntil they screech and scream their own blasphemies!)

19. "Be disgraceful to the graciousand disgusting to saints."

20. Scummy are the schemes of such degenerates,who are so ass-backward—and so double-tongued—they don...

pdf

Share