“The Foolishness of Unbreeching” ~ San Polo; Stigmatization Leading to Stigmata on Naked Torso and Hands and Feet
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Saint Francis gave his father’s clothes straight back
To him. He cast them off and stood before
The clergy and the world, young scrotal sack
On view, garrotting greediness’s roar
With wrinkled bag and sight of uncut cock
Uncovered. Silks and satins stripped away,
He followed Jesus. Merchants all can hawk
Their wares. The church’s rituals can bray
Their little tricks from altars, but the facts
Remain. A saint sees through it all. He dares
To do the shocking, simple, utter acts.
A tiny hicktown city stops and glares.
He left the rest of us behind his bare
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