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SANCTUS ET BENEDICTUS

124. Destiny: Canterbury

     The young man looked at Jesus, loved him, and began
     to beg to be with him. . . . He spent the night with him,
     because Jesus taught him the mystery of God’s domain.

SUCK my cock, you young straight stud; suck it good;
and lick my balls to glisten in love’s fire;
     turn me to your purpose — O Brotherhood! —
     and fuck me with a saint’s precise desire.
     And I’ll fuck you until you give me spill
     again; I’ll push you to the edge of bliss
     and then beyond, your fervent butt will fill
     us with satori, ringent with a kiss.
Then you will know what men as men can do,
     and you and I will know what only God
     can know about another’s flesh, a clue
     to soul’s communion served from passion’s prod.
My offer you accept. Now nude you stand.
     You say this holiness is what Christ planned.

The EPIGRAPH is from The Secret Gospel of Mark, verses 8 and 12. Perhaps used in Alexandria in the early Second Century and found in 1958, it is included in The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholars Version, 1992. Studies like those reported in Biblical Archaeology Review 2009 Nov/Dec, Vol 35 No 6, suggest it is genuine. See also Mark 14:51-52 and 16:5. Fire: “Let the primal fire be revealed in the body’s games.” —Martin Buber, 1947/1965 Between Man and Man, p28, tr Ronald Gregor Smith. Desire: Are “our thoughts derived from a conscious industry or result from concealed desires”? —Glenn Gould, “How Mozart Became a Bad Composer.” Fuck: >«Holy Words». Nude: “The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion. . . . Exuberance is Beauty” —William Blake (1757-1827) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. “When you strip bare without being ashamed, . . . then you will see the Son of the Living One . . . .” —Gospel of Thomas, 37 (baptism?). Satori is a Japanese Buddhist term for Enlightenment, waking from the cultural trance preventing us from seeing reality as it is; “Satori is the perception of Reality itself” —D T Suzuki, Introduction to Zen Buddhism, 1964, p93 >«Don’t Ask + Even Zeus + Libation + Relaxed + Sacred Play + Status». In Scivias, 2.6.14, Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) writes that the soul, “which is invisible, invisibly receives the sacrament which exists invisibly in that oblation, while the human body, which is visible, visibly receives the oblation that visibly embodies that sacrament.” While passion can mean sexual desire, the Christian Passion is the narrative of Christ’s suffering. Men as men: “Why should they not alike in all parts touch?” —John Donne, “Sappho to Philaenis.” Holiness: Many “churches commit themselves to a completely other-worldly religion which made a strange distinction between body and soul, the sacred and the secular.” —Martin Luther King Jr, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” paragraph 32.