Judas Priest and Institutional Dishonesty
2002
Churchianity
2002
By Lance Banbury; 12pp; paperbound; from the author, 71 Recreation St., Tweed Heads. N.S.W. 2485, Australia. No price given.
I don’t know what readers of poetry do without Lance Banbury’s slim self-published volumes, a dozen pages or so each. The standpoint is that of a wit facing the abominable dullness of the age, hence he rhymes, he tells the stark tale of this or that mayhem from a personal point of view.
In this pair of works, it’s the one about the young seminarian who hearkened to instruction and gave all he had to the church for the poor, only to find the money invested in a building program, with stained glass windows:
A shaft of sunlight! The cropped black beard, God so wonderful,
Both hands beckoning above the red rose scent so full;
Motioning toward the old gold, a big chocolate boxful,
As the price to be paid to the poor for His eternal life!
Gems and bullion plundered and plunged from Kandy to Tenerife,
Half catch the chiselled features and the nostrils anew,
Of the empurpled and fringed patrician—some clue!
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