(iv)

________________________________________Kurt taught me mortal sin ________________________________________and the ones I embody
______just me, I won't be ___________________________lust, pride and envy
______responsible for others'________________________they dressed me in green
______greed, sloth and gluttony______________________for a reason

_____________________________anger

and he's right of course
I've committed them all_______________________read this as a morality play
__________________________________with me as the fallen
______ever sinning___________________repentant sinner








I grew up in the church
of the brotherhood
____________________till the voices
no baptism, no gospel choir
_______________threatened salvation
was the fiercest of missionaries___________and I couldn't tell if they were mine
the world according to Destiny____________then north to Salem
________________________________________to become a different kind
__________________an eye for an eye_____________________of apostle










____________for years

I've watched the play_____________coveted the casual
of muscle across Logan's back_____touch of others___________craved Gambit
longed to taste flesh______________unintended______________like an addiction
like sloe gin_____________________or otherwise

_________________imagined myself
_________________too perfect
_________________for such frivolity
_________________as untouchable as the unnamed

______have struck fierce as fate



________________________________________no doubt I would be deserving
smothered in fire__________________________of any hell
broken on the wheel_______________________but if it's true ________________________________________hell is other people
I'm already there__________________________I'm already there






__________________I've done enough
__________________not to be bothered
________________________by my past
__________________anymore