Leonardo painted
that last Seder supper
Passover, Palm Sunday
Could be joint celebrations
If not for an unpretty portrait
Painted for political purpose
Passed around and down
Through Inquisitions
To ovens
To less catastrophic castigation
Leonardo painted
That supper that
Might have been a supper last
But not a rendering
Of manipulated guilt
Purposefully misplaced
In that magnificent canvas
That could have been
Symbol of room enough
For all at the table
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