i'm beginning to worry
about relating to people
--people i'm related to.
easter now tacitly
stripped of theology is
time for a gut check
literally as cousins
discuss ailments of
stomachs esophagi.
(in a failure of secular imagination easter is now just an illness update.)
it's a good thing i
was in a car accident
in january & can now
plausibly fake a
crick in my neck a
soreness in the cold.
grad school isn't exactly
rising from the dead.
(imagine the stories
though jesus would be
able to share w/ my
family. they'd get on.)
a gulf of understanding
opens between jesus &
joseph--poor joseph always
out in the cold--but
mary mother of god
would accept if not
understand & in any event
jesus always has the
father to talk shop w/.
and he can talk to Joseph about carpentry!
ReplyDeleteMan, comparing ailments can be fun or boring, depending, I guess, on how many ailments you have.
my 17 year-old nephew has tb! that's kind of amazing.
ReplyDeletei suppose i could talk sports w/ my old man, but easter's always the wrong season for that.
Yeah, I spose a "precocious ailment" like a 17-year-old w/ TB is worth talking about! But yeah, have totally been there! In my family it's "chronic pain."
ReplyDeleteTB! Crazy!
ReplyDeleteActually this friend of mine was suggesting that maybe Paul had TB and I was like, "ha! that's nonsense" and it turned out this friend had non-symptomatic TB. So I guess people have it! Your nephew has it under control, right? or is it a nightmare?