Trevor Calvert

the morality of puppets

Punch wears
a point cap.
Judy hits him
with a mallet.
Bam!

Punch quotes
his favorite play.
It is amazing
what he knows!

I
have
cut
from
them
parts
of
individuality
repugnant
to
this
God,
in
both
his
aspects.
Parts
sacred
to
rarer
and
more
wonderful
gods.

He knows
his Gnostics
well. To know a thing
is to be a thing.

The fisted motion
always finds a way
against everything.

Punch knows he'll meet
the Devil. Pull his meat
right from his sweet bones.

Judy'll fry him up
in her skillet.

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