Encolpion v.


O Trinity without Weakness, the fourth part of Four,
without which experience has no advocacy
I wept for Saul, I was hewn to Gomorrah
who at my wisdom sent their prostitutes to me.

My crumpled money, my headache so,
the days & escapes any shambles of joy;
but before me is a Deep I can only know
without my glasses, like a boy.

If You will set Your Judgment to distrain me
in the blood I am contemned, remorse I broke and found,
with darkness the lone and tumbling wake,

that Heart for someone else's sake,
take me my graves to be so drowned
but clothe me integral with the Sea.
  

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