Maundy Thursday

Sacrifice yourself give away your food eat bitter acorns pine cones roots give your water to the sheep slap your legs with nettles tie a blood-stained rope with three knots around your arms and waist suffer for God hurt for God two wooden spoons side by side in the dish drainer are a paddle bite down I was in this room I was here before you were born and after you said my name I ate honey from The Great Bear eggs scream down the chute poke a candle in stir it around the child Christ said this is good what are you doing here at this late hour what having learned the lesson of a rotten shoe the smell therein the embarrassment of leather the hurtful tongue there is nothing left to say.