Duality for Dummies

Canticle for Dr. Geoffrey Hill

Whether Christ saves as many as the Christians kill is immaterial now;
Saying it's better one way or the other is a child's play for scholars,
Not worthy of someone who can peer into entrails for Heaven,
Who knows the difference between light and clay.

Who can say how important blood is, as an ingredient, to the soul?
But holy shit, when it comes to myths, we require the stuff in buckets,
For there's no surer proof of our divinity than our capacity for
horror.
But if you really believe that men are monsters, then so they are.

There's only one way into Heaven, through the door that proclaims
“Abandon hope in right and wrong, life and death, sinners and saints.”
God is not the clean in the hairy carcass, but the knowing
That the carcass is clean, despite all effects to the contrary.