Opposing Goliath

“For who is this uncircumcised Philistine,
that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
(1 Samuel 17:26)

I charge down the arched hall that leads only to him

past so many squares and unfinished slaves;

He rises, twice Goliath in feet, meter or cubit

with head of Colossus and conquering hands

and I am gripped as if he were a Kubrickian monolith

He’s too much for the church

Tensed glaring contempt in contrapposto

The carved garbage marble discarded -

tossed by Agostino and Rossellino

I gawk, walk, make mumble-some talk

In the room the women come and go,
Misunderstood by Michelangelo.

The Sistine Chapel is overfull

With overfed transsexuals

and what were Eliot’s feelings for Verdenal?

I want to place at the appropriate distance

Another “beloved” hewed from ebony a

Nubian woman posed in an underhand

windmill Jennie Finch pitch

poised to sling her stone at the Philistine