Pluto, Pharisees and it's all the weather's fault.

Warning:

I'm afraid the following post is very convuluted at times... I had trouble myself making sense out of what I was saying... but, I tried to break it up. Also... the weather is making me silly. (EM, you know who you are and it's your fault, too.)

Hey--

Does anyone have anything they'd like to share about Pharisees here? I titled one of my older poems "Pharisees" and have recently been asked to provide my own interpretation of that title... where the text of the poem makes no mention or even reference to anything Biblical or Talmudic. What does "Talmudic" even mean? It's sad, I know, to ask; but, okay, I looked it up. (sadly, my vocabulary isn't very large; but, happily, I have a dictionary. Ha, that sounds somewhat nonsensical.). The Talmud, as you all know, is:

"the collection of ancient Jewish writings that makes up the basis of Jewish religious law, consisting of the early scriptural interpretations (Mishnah) and the later commentaries on them (Gemara)" (Encarta Dictionary).

Talmudic, then, is the adjective... and guess what. So is Talmudical. Say that twelve times fast.

Actually, the situation of the poem has to do with hermaphrodites and the recognition that the "office of citizenship" in a power of "Plutocrats" does not give to hermaphrodites. That is, they don't recognize "androgenous beings" as citizens; and, in fact, question whether or not they're even "beings." So... anyway. I'm in a world of words--and trying to understand how I can make what I see as sense sensible to someone else.

This sense, to be more specific: that the hypocrisy I see Jesus point out in the Pharisees of the Bible is what I hope to point out as this: the condemnation and mistreatment of hermaphrodites, as if they were somehow wrong or sinful for being the way they are, by those Plutocrats--people of leadership positions in the society that I created in my poem. I'm writing this here not to confuse you, but to offer an opportunity to tell me anything that you feel is important about 1) Pharisees, or 2) hermaphrodites, or even 3) Plutocrats and its connection to the ex-planet, Pluto (if you see a connection there. Hypothesize your own, if not.).

Ha.

Oh, and... the stuff I say about treatment of ... in a society is meant only to refer to the society I created in a poem. Not the larger society we're a part of.