Judas & Jesus

Perhaps in disintegrated Gospels, texts lost 
beneath the historical morass, 
Iscariot counts the money on a blanket sewn from camel hair, 
nervous sweat thickening his eyebrows and beard, the popular 
and unpopular animosity of his time. Legs folded in 
the style of a hindu, heart crossed with the certainty of death: 
the young man thought of being a fugitive among fugitives 
and tried bartering with the fates for a better hand. 
The glimmering tokens that secured his cooperation-- 
Who paid them out, out of who's funds? No one that greedy 
can bear sincere competition. For a guy without a dad and 
horribly disorganized handlers, Jesus sure had a way of dictating 
how kind, brave men should become fathers.... 

So, remember the nameless country where all fathers eventually take residence, 
remember the stories they did, and didn't, tell. Those roads are paid for 
with money, too. And no one kept their promises to Judas 
or Jesus. Remember you were here. Mahalo. 




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