Cattle of the Lord Quotes

“Fuck it all. I won't kick in a goddamn cent against innocence. If you are god, raise up the angels. I, down here below, expect zilch from you, just perhaps a drop of shame.”
― Rosa Alice Branco, Cattle of the Lord: Poems

“You've gathered your death
and you lie down so that the night may continue what you haven't even begun.”
― Rosa Alice Branco, Cattle of the Lord: Poems

“And you, what did you do with your mother's talents
when pain made her suffer the ground
you dragged yourself across toward Calvary.
Every day she asks:
Are you dead?
And I say: arise.
You haven't finished all your talents yet:
all of us are rotten through
and the only thing we've doubled is our doubt.”
― Rosa Alice Branco, Cattle of the Lord: Poems