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Poetry Board, December 15, 2000: Jon likes experimenting with form in poetry, and the poem below is an excellent example. In Jon's own words: "Let me explain how to read this. The first, third, and fifth lines are to be read in succession, followed by the second, fourth, sixth, seventh, etc."

The Christ-child is Dead
by Jon Jones

If this is love,
      what god would be so cruel;
Then what's left to be
      so naive to think
Confusion?
      that we're all so grateful?
      for he so loved us
      that he gave us his son?
      what son might be so spiteful
      as to represent such love and
      claim it a gift?
What terrible hateful son
Can claim it a gift, this
Twisting of logic, this
Melting of thought, this
Endpoint of lucidity?

You peddler of love!
You hateful god!
You do me no good!

 

 

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