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At The Reassignment And Relocation Of Duty
They cannot quite live with the evidence,
and so they asked us, rather, to admit
falsely that we had been asleep on duty---
a dereliction worse than negligence
in battle; punished always, absolutely,
by forfeiture of pay and rank, then death.
But they have spared us from that with a bribe
to Pilate and---part of their plan, designed
to silence us---we shall be reassigned.
They gave us money too (I shall describe
the sum as generously more than fit).
Despite what they prefer---pretend---presume,
I know we all beheld the emptied tomb,
and in it no dead man from Nazareth.
Starward
[jlc]
