I was angry when I heard Tosh had been gunned down
in his home. Sometimes you can't get up when you fall.
Folks cried, Long live Rastafari in Kingston Town.
Nietzsche once said, and it's often been repeated,
What does not kill me makes me stronger -- t-shirt stuff
now, in an Age of slogans and memes depleted
of spirit, man merging with machines. God plays rough.
New world slaves in old Jamaica cut sugar cane
and were taught to believe in Jesus and obey.
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X. JESUS IS STRIPPED OF HIS CLOTHES
The bitterness of the vinegar would have galled
him more than the loss of clothes. Water he'd changed to wine,
and wine would be his blood's transubstantiation.
They could keep the rags of his humiliation,
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