Marco Polo had canals
and Venetian genitals,
In the war between Genoa
and Venicia,
Marco Polo’s was captured
And then they wrote the book
And that’s all she wrote,
Because after that
the Wandering Jesuit
Italian Monk
made his way to the wall
in the China – far
in the Indes of the
Saints,
far in the cave of reality
down the suicide steps
into underground caves
where worshippers
like Ignatius Loyola
and the Hearer & Answerer
of Prayer, Samantabhadra,
what’s his Indian name,
preside
(like before they were born)