This poem is taken from PN Review 171, Volume 33 Number 1, September - October 2006.
The Face on Marsa sermon
Friends, it is good to see you here today,
good to have had this time with you to pray.
Please, please. Be seated. What I have to say,
though new to everybody here, will not,
I think, shock you, for everything I've taught,
the whole evolving system of my thought,
has led me (it is clear in retrospect)
to this: a truth the whole world will reject
except for you, my dear ones, my elect.
You will recall, from past sermons I've given
on different members of the host of heaven,
that Mars is the most crucial more so even
than Jupiter. I wonder have you read
any of what has recently been said
about Mars having been inhabited?
Some of these people are lunatics, I know.
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