The Tale of the Uncorrupted Body of St. Sebastian of the Carts
human body, silver, glass
el Templo de San Francisco, Puebla, Mexico
When Sebastian was told not to give his cloak away—
he was constantly giving away wealth (his last loaf
of bread, a head of lettuce wet with dew,
the final kindness of his plate) and the abbot
was sick of it—Sebastian agreed, you see,
so, he told the beggar he found on the road covered,
as that man was, in a wealth of his own piss
and pinhole scabs that he could not stop him
from talking the cloak by force. The beggar …
