William F. Buckley, Jr.

      It is this common, dirty love of all Man
      that does us in. When I was a puling boy,
      unloved and underpublished, I put my levelled scope
      to the crew-cut skulls of my class and wrote
5     Man and God at Yale, what a joke!
      Man's a bastard, and God is not his dad.
      All my soaring arrows jut suction tips... see?
      Jefferson's sky-high forehead's still red
      from where he plucked my one-sided life
10    of concourse off. I'm the best Catholic in my diocese,
      and when Mary was assumed by Pius X,X,X,
      I smiled at my blushing girlfriend in her dorm,
      posing for family photos of the Nativity. So what
      if God made me? I am what I engendered.

 

From the collection "Contemporaries"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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