from the cross. He'd been lanced to make sure he was dead.
God got the better part, and the body returned
to Mary, his mother, before it could be burned.
Did Mary take the thorny crown from his head?
Did Joseph cuff it with the Grail? Fables tease us.
How it got dipped in gold remains a mystery.
Was that irony? Elevation of Office
over his miserable death, Sotheby's sought?
A Baalinization for which Crusades were fought?
I dunno. A gold-dipped crown makes me nauseous.
I'm tired, frankly, of one-percenter history.
Some scholars say Joseph was The Wandering Jew.
Yet he took down Christ's body? This requires a stew.
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XIV. JESUS IS LAID IN THE TOMB
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