{"id":2578,"date":"2025-09-02T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2025-09-02T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:37:31","slug":"the-gospel-according-to-gesamtkomodiewerke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/02\/the-gospel-according-to-gesamtkomodiewerke\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel According to Gesamtkom\u00f6diewerke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

1 The Rape of Mary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Black clouds poured over the cliff
Like Treacle over hardcore and
Hell was written across her belly
By two Roman soldiers
In lines that brought down my father
That put radical humiliation on television
And left a little cut
That will tear

Confusion reigns
Despotically
With a crown of roses
Without knives
Or knaves
At all<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
2 The Schizophrenia Prodrome of Mary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Total ambiguity will not be reconciled
By ambiguilty verdicts 
In any path that we tread
I have forgotten what I have lost
A wave far from the shore
Is building in my womb
These babies grow like nipples
In a chill breeze
The ground shakes with pairs
The number 2 is burned in the sun
That I stare at
These two suns
One for each eye
Burn a line across me
And open Hell like a zip
Death shall be born from me
And suffering will walk across the desert<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
3 The Schizophrenic Episode of Mary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Draw this babe from my flesh
I have seen his double
Walk upon the sea in horrible dreams
I have seen him conjuring demons 
In the flickers of nights
Screaming myself awake into Joseph's bewilderment
I thank the world for this crime
That has brought a change in me
Those who attack me are but nothing
And shall rot in the soil
As my daughter shall inherit all the dust of the Earth
I am a glass
That magnifies
And clarifies
I am the world made flesh
Take me Gabriel 
In the sight of Joseph
Where are you going?
To my bed to be raped again
My rage shall fill the oceans
A great wave of hate
Will grow through me
Scatter the nations 
In my vengeance
This girl in my innards
Will melt temples into air
The stone will boil as magma
Vomited from the throat of Satan
Heads shall hit the earth while they still scream
New worlds will be torn down by her sword
Our souls shall magnify
And if there be two inside me 
Their clash 
Will shatter kingdoms
I am walking in the graveyards of the future
And see myself written across bodies

Mary fell on her knees and the visions began
Awful metal angels dropping fire from the sky
As human dots ran into holes
A new order of cruelty shall wash across all the lands
As each is meat to each<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
4 The Nativity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The pains of birth 
Eased the heart's stormy warnings
Peasants happy 
In literal shit
Then baby then piss
Relief
In the heart of the storm
The boy will spark 
At the fuse of everything
What is this fresh joy on the bed
Of losers and layabouts
The spring of red blood has emerged 
From a virgin ground
That will run into a river
And dye the oceans<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
5 The Wild Orgiastic Youth of Christ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Festivities beyond reason
Well past jokes
Misrule rules
In parties and orgies
Unbounded by any law
Cocks and cunts and cuckolds and 
Falling again to newer lower higher older 
Loves and hates
And running
From last night
To the last night
That there is no sun
In these eyes
To be bloodshot
And drunk again
In two shots 
To two eyes<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
6 The Schizophrenia Prodrome of Christ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Basic mistakes
Grow in this strange alien
That suspects
Suspicion itself
This new angel
Of geometry
And flight
That rises with perfect symmetry
And casts a shadow of lines
In numbers in books
That line its infinite library
On shelves that tower
Over wheels that turn
In on themselves<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
7 The Schizophrenic Episode of Christ<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
My madness mirrors my mother's
Her Hell has handled him
Bring the cut again
The scissor
Across the sky
Open the blue against the starry black nothing
The angels arrive as a pair
And the mirror
Is the first glass to be seen
In both my eyes
Staring at each other
As holes in holes<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
8 Hell on Earth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Pour it
Down the gullet
Let it
Pull you down
All the poor 
Have arrived
To watch
Us fail them
No drink
Pouring
Just silence
Future
History
Can be seen
As the past
Everything to be is in one eye and everything that has been is in the other<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
9 Grace<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Clarity has graced the Earth
But once
That was
Had to be
Long ago
For us
To see it as it was<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
10 Fully Realised Anxiety<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The sweat tinged red with blood drips 
On this face of fear
The garden shakes
With the day that is coming

Two soldiers return
Again for a second
That will live in the minds of men 
For all eternity
And will worry the heads of women
For another
That will meet the unmeetable
In love and hate
Cold shivering hairs
Await the morning
And begs for day break to wait
Like a child trying to blow the wind away
And a kiss becomes an icon<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
11 The Crucifixion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The whole world be split
Absolutely dethroned
The word itself crumbled
On the damned
Seven words that join and cut
And cut and join
The mother and son and son and mother
A thirst that wants some water unknown
A forgiveness that forgives some crime yet to be
He is in no place to forgive
And so he was his mother's forgiveness
The two soldiers cut him again
And yet he restrained the burning hate from his lips
Abandoned at the gate of flame
The original slasher movie
Has already happened 
At birth
It is a memory
Of your cosmology
Paradise is told in pain
In the wound of the world
That seeps blood
On broken promises
On orgasms edged and finished
No one
No knowledge
No action 
Only vengeance versus avengers annihilating each other and
No body<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
12 Absolute Infinity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Absolute zero
One and the other
In fields of grazing grief
Slit by rivers of tears
And psychedelic skies
Lit up by digital fears
And disappearing whats
And whos and wheres
Slipping out of a now empty world
A final why screamed at the sky and all I got in return is this lousy 
Silence.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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