Credo
in memory of Kevin Calegari, who died of
AIDS on February 12, 1995 in San Francisco
Romanum Pontificem in rebus fidei
et morum definiendis errare non posse
Our senior year, how did you pick out me
to be your friend? I’m straight. Your Catholic faith
escapes me, and I thought your plan to be
a priest was folly. And I’d all but tell you,
then stop, because there’d been that liberal pope
who’d lived for thirty days in Rome and died
too soon–just long enough to start the joke
that his successor’s name would …
