Viva Italia

Howard Moss was a prophet
is a prophet his book finally came to me
& his poem
Movies for the Home

Watch the silver screen Shalimar
God’s alive inside a movie
Procul Harum Keith Reid
also a prophet

Praise God and glorify Him always
Fellini Sophia Marcello
reality seamlessly drifts
into dreams

as in reality 8 1/2
he helps his father into the grave
Another film repulses
the sickening decadence of

a fallen Empire
flatulent flabby gluttonous grotesque
without the Law
O Italia

fountainhead of glory and decadence
Truth and death and
Beauty: the sickness of the unfounded ego
the beautiful ship set adrift

without a Pilot
in love with its reflection
Narcissus
in love with the creature instead of the Creator

in love with the pot instead of the Potter
Who will destroy
and unmake and set at nothing
piddling potters and creators

who glorify the crooked
twisted playthings
of men who have not
cast off the skin

of the old man
(he helps his father into the grave)
and put on the pure white robe of the new
washed clean in the blood of the Lamb