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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345497" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Legend Of The One-Eyed Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Like Oedipus I am losing my sight.<br>Like Judas I have done my wrong.<br>Their punishment is over;<br>the shame and disgrace of it<br>are all used up.<br>But as for me,<br>look into my face<br>and you will know that crimes dropped upon me<br>as from a high building<br>and although I cannot speak of them<br>or explain the degrading details<br>I have remembered much<br>about Judas -<br>about Judas, the old and the famous -<br>that you overlooked.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The story of his life<br>is the story of mine.<br>I have one glass eye.<br>My nerves push against its painted surface<br>but the other one<br>waiting for judgment<br>continues to see . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course<br>the New Testament is very small.<br>Its mouth opens four times -<br>as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster,<br>yet somehow man-made<br>held together by pulleys<br>like the stone jaw of a back-hoe.<br>It gouges out the Judaic ground,<br>taking its own backyard<br>like a virgin daughter.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And furthermore how did Judas come into it -<br>that Judas Iscariot,<br>belonging to the tribe of Reuben?<br>He should have tried to lift him up there!<br>His neck like an iron pole,<br>hard as Newcastle,<br>his heart as stiff as beeswax,<br>his legs swollen and unmarked,<br>his other limbs still growing.<br>All of it heavy!<br>That dead weight that would have been his fault. <br>He should have known!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the first place who builds up such ugliness?<br>I think of this man saying . . .<br>Look! Here's the price to do it<br>plus the cost of the raw materials<br>and if it took him three or four days<br>to do it, then, they'd understand.<br>They figured it weighed enough<br>to support a man. They said,<br>fifteen stone is the approximate weight<br>of a thief.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its ugliness is a matter of custom.<br>If there was a mistake made<br>then the Crucifix was constructed wrong . . .<br>not from the quality of the pine,<br>not from hanging a mirror,<br>not from dropping the studding or the drill<br>but from having an inspiration.<br>But Judas was not a genius<br>or under the auspices of an inspiration.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't know whether it was gold or silver.<br>I don't know why he betrayed him<br>other than his motives,<br>other than the avaricious and dishonest man.<br>And then there were the forbidden crimes,<br>those that were expressly foretold,<br>and then overlooked<br>and then forgotten<br>except by me . . .<br>Judas had a mother<br>just as I had a mother.<br>Oh! Honor and relish the facts!<br>Do not think of the intense sensation<br>I have as I tell you this<br>but think only . . .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Judas had a mother.<br>His mother had a dream.<br>Because of this dream<br>he was altogether managed by fate<br>and thus he raped her.<br>As a crime we hear little of this.<br>Also he sold his God.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Sexton">Anne Sexton</a><div class=q>
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Like Judas I have done my wrong.
Their punishment is over;
the shame and disgrace of it
are all used up.
But as for me,
look into my face
and you will know that crimes dropped upon me
as from a high building
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