Sweet Mother of God

regal dream and primmadonna
 angel queen of tijuana
 mother earth and virgin saint
 succor, nurse, and suffrir gate
 to gaudy beauty's hocus-pocus
 guadeloupe's theotokos
 for heathens, scribes, enraptured daughters
 a neon bride on dashboard alters
 sweet mother of God
 (what's got into you, boy?)
 oh for the love of God
 (what's got into you boy?)
 sweet mother of God
 you ponder, you wander,
 you cling and you lean
 while she's bruising you, using you
 seldom refusing you
 monumental apparition
 ornamental grave beautition
 satirized and patronized,
 undersized and glamorized
 matriarchal wisdom seat
 sentimental paraclete
 statuesque forlorn pieta,
 esqued, suppressed, and scorned contessa
 casa nostra placebo
 glorisa domino
 mediatrix bella donna
 dominicus della strada
 limbo low e' la cañada
 tuck'n'roll lobla limbada
 coredemptrix mediation
 genuflexix obligation
 latria at fatima
 oblida basilica
 gratia plena benedicta
 adolescentia byzantina
 isn't it wild? mother and child
 meek and the mild, never defiled
 fruit of the womb, out of the tomb
 bride and the groom, sun and the moon
 altar queen wonder, suffering lover
 covering buffer, hovering mother
 blessing and testing, confessing and pressing
 inerrant, transparent, domestic, majestic
 idyllic, angelic, filling, dispelling
 foretelling, compelling, instilling, indwelling
 favoring, laboring, savoring, flavoring
 healing us, sealing us, stealing us, leading us
 ponder her, honor her, magistrate, venerate,
 bond to her, long for her, sing to her, cling to her
 and i'm not so sure there's anything wrong with her