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Jesus swayed to the music, grooving in the rain.

Not yet a prisoner at Abu Ghraib.

The rope he used whipping the parasites in the Temple

passed hand to hand.

Like the very young, he also desired peace and love.

The authorities posed him, for sport,

 in their carnival of madness.

Roll away the stone.

Before midnight.

Before midnight,

a young artist storms the stage.

Wearing red oak leaves,

 illuminating

the vast, glistening night.

Unknown.

Commingling with rain & shadows.

Crying forth her gravelled composition.

Melanie Safka performing Birthday of the Sun live at Woodstock (1969):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5Bwz0idx7s

Roll away the stone.

Source material:

Christ’s Crucifixion by Diego Velaquez

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Photograph of

Abu Ghraib prisoner

@ Wikipedia.org

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Woodstock photo (detail) uncredited, found online.

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I’ve digitally recomposed new images for non-commercial

purposes of commentary.