Welcome to volume 3 – religion.
I’m gonna start out with poems from when I was a kid and then gradually work up into old age. At the beginning there will be poems that are very specifically about Christianity and Catholicism, because that’s how I was raised. Gradually, they’ll get more general and more philosophical. Some of them, but not all of them, will be angry and bitter. At least one will be downright offensive, something I wouldn’t ever write about Buddhism or Islam or any other religion, because I didn’t grow up in them. I don’t have the right to speak. Even though they probably deserve just as much anger and bitterness, I can’t speak about it from the inside. Christianity, Catholicism, I think I have the right to speak. Anyway, I’ll start tomorrow with a poem from when I was fourteen years old.
As ever, thank you for listening.