Saint Judas (1959) James Arlington Wright

Question 1

When I went out to kill myself, I caught

Answer 1

A pack of hoodlums beating up a man.

Question 2

Running to spare his suffering, I forgot

Answer 2

My name, my number, how my day began,

Question 3

How soldiers milled around the garden stone

Answer 3

And sang amusing songs; how all that day

Question 4

Their javelins measured crowds; how I alone

Answer 4

Bargained the proper coins, and slipped away.

Question 5

Banished from heaven, I found this victim beaten,

Answer 5

Stripped, kneed, and left to cry. Dropping my rope

Question 6

Aside, I ran, ignored the uniforms:

Answer 6

Then I remembered bread my flesh had eaten,

Question 7

The kiss that ate my flesh. Flayed without hope,

Answer 7

I held the man for nothing in my arms.