Chicano Poet

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

La Iglesia

I lay in bed with Antonia
both of us naked from the waist down

half a block away
the church bell had a pierced tongue

the pews hid tattoos
around teenage ankles

nuns ached
for the body of Christ

I paid no attention to mass
each rosary bead fingered was lust

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