just when you thought you could
take some archaic joy out
of Christianity,
the secular, protestant, western
narrative takes over...
and always at Christmas i am most
content putting away the Christmas tree,
the sadness of putting away paganism
and listening to some rabbinical schmer,
occult kabbalistic murmurs,
to later write out the holiest of
the holy names,
if the Hebrew will not utter the name,
but curse like a cobbler,
i have no option other that shy
from looking at it in latin geometrics,
namely, hiding it in braille:
   ⠽ ⠓ ⠺ ⠓
                    just when you could
get some fun out of Christianity,
notably eastern catholicism,
   not the relaxed iberian type,
just shy of the Mediterranean sort...
balti sushi, because as the saying goes:
a herring is not a fish, a herring is a herring,
baltic sushi...
          bothersome "heretics"
in the protestant lands, bothersome gnats
screaming till their larynxes do d' pop...
jesuit rigour and discipline,
if not a saint, then a saint in waiting,
Ignacius Layola... rigour, discipline,
tradition, or just enough to laugh
at the little devil's curiosity of grown
people walking with wicker baskets
parading having just castrated
  the golden calf before the altar of
a wooden lamp, in modern abstract art
a lamp that took the form of a crucifix...
just when Christianity started to become
fun, as it always does during Easter,
****! Christmas is so miserable. ..
      just when you thought it could be fun...
you have western Christianity,
    protestantism, those sorry *** Jacobites...
morose clad in black Victorian prunes
who really get into ***** talk during
***...
            doubling up on the word made flesh...
**** no! I'm not buying into this godforsaken
narrative...
           because we know what Christianity
is translated into in the western world:
the secular term for Christianity
      is sado-masochism...
                 at least in the remaining bastions
of catholicism we still know a bella
   from a ******.