((Dedicated to Salman Rushdie) (a narrative poem))
He says he owns his own words, Salman Rushdie, but
changes Muhammad to
Mohound, and, that sounds to me like satirical verse, perhaps narration
at its worse, perchance nearing its truth, satanically, but recklessly. It’s
all a devil’s mask, to tell the truth— Rushdie has his own reasons why,
but my best guess it is his kind of way of telling a lopsided
story from long ago, bringing it back to its upright position—perhaps as
it should be, who’s to say, but somehow he nails it down to its heels and knees,
he
moves close to Islamic blasphemy, or could we call it the unpardonable
sin?... , possibly so, if he was only a Muslim: especially with his
polytheistic–deities, whom Muhammad tried to fix, implying what he
memorized and spoke of, was a Satanic trick. But I must confess, he says it
best, in his own words: twisting and changing the old facts, changing the
devil-masks.
#3481 (12-5-2012)
