EVEN AS SUCCUBUS you remain sardonic,

intractable, to get hung up about.

Sour introject, what will it take

to liquidate you, unquenchable

by many waters, undrownable

by spate? You are the rock

of a schismatic church of twisted rafters,

crazy pews; the lectern bearing countless

verses of illegible good news.

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“Introject” I owe to Mark Weiss; I hope I have used it appropriately.