1) Scapegoat Sacrament
this
is
my
body
which is broken for
you
eat
it
and
may
it
choke
and
kill
you
..
..
2) Wednesday Entertainment
flaming thirsts
were quenched
today
at the Pauper’s
Graveyard
white hole
thin box
throat
snapped
for fear
next week:
popcorn
..
..
3) Red Mass
vampires
belched
in broad
daylight
on the Fox Hill
Road
dyspeptic
pastors
farted
fire
choirs of
maimed
red angels
gurgled
lunatic
hosannas …
•••
Reprinted with permission from Ian Strachan’s Silk Cotton Soul (Cerasee Books, 2006)
Ian Gregory Strachan is the author of several plays, including No Seeds in Babylon, Fatal Passage, and Diary of Souls. His other works include the novel God’s Angry Babies, the academic treatise Paradise and Plantation: Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean, and the documentary Show Me Your Motion.
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