after Goya
The hooded penitents have passed – the shackled
Nazarenos holding their long candles – and the altar boys,
carrying the trappings of the Passion on their pillows:
the hammer and nails, the crown of thorns, the chalice
and the pliers; the soldiers’ flail, the soldiers’ dice.
What shall we give him? The straw man is sick.
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