Trussed in Christianity
Like some stretched fowl upon a spit,
His oil of kindness turned to bile,
The venom curdled in his wit.
Too born of Rome to be a Jew,
He made the Bible undergo
A change of rhetoric and roll
A circumcisioned Cicero.
Trussed in Christianity
Like some stretched fowl upon a spit,
His oil of kindness turned to bile,
The venom curdled in his wit.
Too born of Rome to be a Jew,
He made the Bible undergo
A change of rhetoric and roll
A circumcisioned Cicero.
Rachel Cusk photo courtesy the author.
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