Hardened By Hermeneutics

Cerebral-isms sling schemes  
to salivate upon  
sweetened thesis'    
swimming in seminary  
undergrad  
Orbit gum excretions;  
Their manilla folders    
flatly crisp  
yet mouth-breathed over  
in hints of chewed    
wintermint  
   
Cold-ening closeness  
through cadaver-cut  
creeds  
competent in granite canons  
entombing souls in catacombs    
   
Teach me, friend  
(since you're clearly Jerome born again...)  
And I'm oh so dazzled    
by one so arcane...  
Behind you, we wait  
as children - inane    
   
Plunge your pencil    
principled fingers  
deeper...  
into all 6 predestined    
pressure points  
   
Calvin could commend you;  
and I'd stand  
with only common  
crass  
grace on my face  
   
Heave election dissections    
into itchy  
inflamed  
ear holes  
clogged with waxy    
infected  
circumspection    
   
Someone will listen  
   
Mundane faith roils    
rife  
through the chests of us  
with peanuts beneath our    
economy  
evangelical seats    
Under handkerchief noses  
ariel and great  
What spectacles we must be;  
With messy  
stupid love  
that only ever herniates  
   
   
   
   
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Philosophy is not philanthropy.