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September 25th 2008 00:34
The Bad Monk
by Charles Baudelaire
by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudlaire
On the great walls of ancient cloisters were nailed
Murals displaying Truth the saint,
Whose effect, reheating the pious entrails
Brought to an austere chill a warming paint.
In the times when Christ was seeded around,
More than one illustrious monk, today unknown
Took for a studio the funeral grounds
And glorified Death as the one way shown.
—My soul is a tomb, an empty confine
Since eternity I scour and I reside;
Nothing hangs on the walls of this hideous sty.
O lazy monk! When will I see
The living spectacle of my misery,
The work of my hands and the love of my eyes?
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Holy Relics worshipped as water,
Questing the integral truth,
A sustaining search,
Feeds the curious manifestation.
The curmudgeon of devotion,
The vexation of primal desire,
The emerced secret soul,
The individual sole observer.
Corrupted promises, tainted affection
Focused sacrifice, aimless toil,
To die and finally know, was it worth it?
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