Chapter 9 saints and hunchbacks
stand up, put your hands up and start
to pray
For a man who tastes terrible pain
In the process of reflecting on his lost reputation.
A roman caesar has also succumbed
Under this hump.
God tempts everyone
in various ways.
I shouldn't stop praising because
I'm flogging myself with a whip
Maybe in that night and morning I can drive away
Alexander the Greek hidden in my flesh,
and Augustus Caesar, after them
Then there's the great scoundrel Hanyar Sebald.
for all that stand up in your flesh
And those who pray, I want to offer my gratitude,
Pay them homage precisely according to their rank,
But the vast majority must be left to Alcibiades.
Notes:
Alcibiades: c.450-404 BC, Athenian statesman and general.
mung bean translation