Advent Absurdity

ADVENT ABSURDITY

I’ve grown, if imperceptibly,

indifferent, as if the sheer absurdity 

of a virgin knocked up by an invisible spirit

to scandalously procreate the God (mind, 

while still a virgin) were nothing out 

of the ordinary. Come, shout

it in my face that

                            'this is utterly insane'—

slap me, say, but just remind

me how ridiculous even a name

like YHWH is, a Hebrew tetragrammaton

which I think means something

like Yes, attempt to sound

it out, and when you come

up hopelessly short,

                                there I am.