party to the tunes of centaurs with flutes.
"I Get Knocked Down, But I Get Up Again,"
on the jukebox, stagger home, man of men.
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IV. JESUS MEETS HIS AFFLICTED MOTHER
Christ's mom wasn't thrilled by the Cross idea --
Jesus had had plenty of better ones:
Water to wine was a fave. And his puns
won her over. But the Cross produced fear.
There are just things they don't want us to do --
sacrifice oneself for no good reason,
for instance, which is a form of treason
that no good mother ever wants to rue.
I recall when my working class mother
gave a look, as if to say, when she learned
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