Christ of the one minus two

Christ So and So or What’s-His-Name

Christ Lord of National Beggardom

Christ who hasn’t got a nail to lose

Christ Pedestrian on the Mall’s Stations of the Cross

Christ Ahumada, leaping Glory to God in His Holy Name

Christ whose body was stolen from the Morgue

Christ who showed up dead under some other name

Christ on the big screen

Christ under gunfire on the battlefield

Christ Street Theater

Christ actor in a movie filmed in secret to identify terrorists

Christ who takes flight, hanging onto some cheap new shoes

Christ who falls sacrificed to the duty of the other man shot by his zealous executioner

Christ abandoned by the hand of God

Christ of copper without a dime in the mine

Christ dying of hunger an example of how fed up they are—both the good and bad thieves

Christ king of the legless on wheels

Christ without feet or arms crucified tortured

Christ of wax like a bonzo burning for the liberty of his children

Christ “Penguin” to whom the Virgin appears

Christ at the bar of a lower class tavern

Christ of the drunks who die in accordance with the Law

Christ of those shivering

Christ of the betrayed

Christ of the unredeemed

Christ target of a stray bullet

Christ killed in his slum for having refused to shout “Long live Chile”

Christ whose house is invaded by police

Christ tortured and passive agent of a masterly lesson by a Paganini of the thing

Christ neither king nor coin

Christ who was thoroughly screwed

     As if Ahumada Mall were a swamp

that had been filled with infinitesimal helicopter mosquitoes

that fly here without buzzing

bloodless

Because who is there to bite and who in this dried up swamp

which all red-blooded people have left and barely one

or another person remains bleeding one or another bloody person

From the thrusting muzzle of dogs they wanted to gorge, those prostituted mosquitoes, but they are police dogs

and the plague of insects is covered with dust in the dryness

without a drop of blood to adore

flying to the tune you play.