Pharos

I Am Not A Religious Man
But I Am On My Way To Jerusalem 

But For Now, I'm Weeks With Them In Babylon
All Famine And Feasts
Or Floods
For Some Had Boyfriends
So We Didn't Kiss When Through
Just Slip Off And Out From Single
Room
To
Room.
In The Hall Recall How Awful It All
Was Enforcing The Postcode Rule
From Then I Made Rules Up
No Kissing.
At All.
Just Spine Shuttering Later As
My Fingers Smells 20 Minutes Old

It Was All Over And Over Her Hands Too
After Taking Bad Blood
Both Ours
And Putting It To Use.
Others Handprints Pushed Off Me
As Mine Grabbed Their Ribbed Backs
Again
And
Again
This Being The Last Exit From Alexandria
Thinking About How She Spoke
Of God, Jesus And Christ
Even Me,
Twice.
I Am Not A Religious Man
But Jerusalem, It's The Only Place Still Standing

From There I'll Wait, Looking Across Bay
Waiting For Her Lighthouse To Welcome My Stay.


CK