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Unusual Passersby At Nazareth
Wipe from your face that stinking, ashen soot.
So much of it pollutes the local air.
We need to look like normal folks, not scary.
Espionage is our task. We shall carry
it out wth suave, subtle, silent finesse.
(The others always envy our success;
even the Devil does too---more or less).
Look at those adolescents---quite a pair,
that Magdalene girl and the Son of God,
out for a walk, hand-holding, and barefoot
(I guess Love's holy ground keeps them unshod).
I wonder . . . let us speculate . . . is she
(this shy and lovely teenaged girl) the key
to someday shut down Jesus' ministry?
Starward
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