Timely Flagellation at the Museum

Every hour on the hour
A golden Christ gets
What no one deserves

Which is to say lashed
With wires by golden men
Christ the center

Of a golden table clock
Every hour on the hour
Since 1625

That’s how good
The mechanism is
Says the sign

Augsburg, Germany
And engineering to last
Every hour on the hour

Century after century
Christ getting
What no one deserves

And at every lash
At every hour the question
Why, why, why