tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15543572106314305242024-03-08T17:21:01.463-08:00OctoGeekAJ Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765836513403665199noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1554357210631430524.post-17502602712040906922010-03-02T14:13:00.000-08:002010-03-02T14:18:47.069-08:00Catholic Noir<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in">Catholic Noir</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in"><br /></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in">Sometimes, when the bright wind blows around me and the walls are polished by midnight, I'm invincible. When the quiet voices speak to me through the wicker barred confessional, I feast upon them until I am bloated and the dark power of absolution runs down my jowls like grease. I offer penance with words soft as blood-drops falling on snow. I give an indispensable comfort to the pale, anonymous, blur-faced wretches who stumble into my midnight temple. </p> <p style="text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0in">And later, after they've lurched from the warmth of my condolences, I wait for them in the shadows by the river.</p> <p style="text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in">It's always over quickly—I'm not a sadist—just the swift slide of razored steel, a slumping fall.</p> <p style="text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in">No time at all, really, just the slow space between tick and tock, thunder and lightning, alive and dead. </p> <p style="text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in">The river takes them from my hands with the gentle tug of eternity and carries them into the darkness toward the light. Yes, light. I have saved them and eased them into the arms of the Jordan and the glory of God. </p> <p style="text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in">I am proud of my calling and my talent.</p> <p style="text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in">The robes of the Cardinal <i>and</i> the Inquisitor are the same shade of red.</p> <p style="text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0in"><i>Requiescat In Pace.</i></p>AJ Hayeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02765836513403665199noreply@blogger.com6