Disillusion
The Comma Johanneum is…
1 John 5:7-8
5:7 "For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 5:8 And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one."
I just discovered that the dance I thought was The Roger Rabbit
is really The Cabbage Patch
and what I thought was The Cabbage Patch
is The Running Man
but of course there is no Trinity
it is a parallax, bent light shimmying in oasis heat, the bark of the hound of the Baskerville
a theoretical summation adopted by middle aged theologians
propagated-
by which I mean “enforced”
by the 100 years of papal-politik
the flint and kindling of auto de fe
grindstone to inquisitor’s ax
but ultimately as concocted
as Bloody Mary
celery, tomato, vodka, Tabasco, lemon
and black pepper
by Tommy “Deus Ex Machine Gun” Aquinas
in an attempt to sober up to and reconcile the biblical text and the segmented ether of Augustine’s Neo-platonic sensibilities.
I.E. he made that- ‘S’ ‘H’ up
bore the lie like a dumb ox till doomsday
Old E could have righted the wrong
but he preferred this mark to martyrdom
Had he chosen heresy over hierocracy
foundation might now be footnote
article reduced to asterisk
but the church will have its indulgences
An irony not lost on angels that where Jesus speaks the ink is red
so much blood for a blot
So much cost for a comma
but if not a comma-
a dash
perhaps
