AGAINST the 400-Year Anniversary of the Canons of Dort

AGAINST the 400-year-old Anniversary of the Canons of Dort
OR
my gramma’s beheading like the results of dort

my gramma grabbed that hatchet
and the white pullet
then wack,
that bloody spurt or naught

that chicken head lay dead edged
in my 5-year eyes while that
silent squawking chicken’s body
(not elected for that select coop on the upper ledge
behind their barn)

ran circling 5 points round and round, by golly,
in its danced death-exit
ever present in my memory's
brained thought
round the years--
400 including its 30 Years War--

of distress and despair caused by those Christian ‘apopletics,’
against the remonstrants
by those calvinist 5 sin’ods of dort,
heartless
those canons who beheaded van oldenbarnevelt

--
For those who don’t like analogies and word-play poetry, in plain prose here’s the ethical points:
THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY AND IDEOLOGY

have
CONSEQUENCES,
often HORRIFIC,
causing
INJUSTICE,
INEQUALITY,
DESTRUCTION
and
DEATH.


Choose instead the Enlightenment of Reason, Justice and Compassion,

Daniel Wilcox