04-03-2025, 09:01 PM
(04-03-2025, 07:01 PM)RiverNotch Wrote: The joke goes that, when a JFK conspiracist went to Heaven, he asked God, "God, who really killed JFK?" God answered, "Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, using his own Carcano M91 rifle." The conspiracist reacted, "Wow, this goes even deeper than I thought.")
What is Mystery
to the Sabians and Mandeans
lies not in history,
nor science, why the Lagrangian
works, or the equivalence principle.
Why Argentinian municipal
bonds aren’t worthless
The Chinese mirthless
good geishas girthless -
no, not in these.
They don’t marvel that geese
cackling saved Rome.
That Berlin lagged Bonn
at one time.
But that Jesus, poetaster
trumped his divine master -
the Baptist called John.
From dazzling heights Andean
John was dragged through mud.
Now only the Mandean
keeps the original flood-
-of-river baptism.
John paid with his head.
Jesus usurped his blood.