Numbered, weighed, and found

wanting...



A white stone and a new na-

me, at peace with the lord and

freed from blame, all debts re-

mitted, thy sould washed

clean, O glorious splen-

dours of the rebirth.



...But that stone is a lump of

coal, for thou hadst a whore's

forehead, thou refusedst to be

ashamed.



A white stone and a new

name, restoring the years

that the locust have eaten, again

clean enough to speak his name,

oh happy vantage of a knee-

ling knee



...But that name is a ghost

unseen, for thou hadst a whore's

forehead, thou refusedst to be

ashamed. Mene, Mene, Tekel,

Upharsin... thou refusedst

to be ashamed.



Numbered, weighed, and found

wanting...



A white stone and a new na-

me, thy lamp removed from the

altar of shame, but that name

is a ghost unseen, for thou

hadst a whore's forehead, thou

refusedst to be ashamed.