Ho Tekton

Silent Saint Joseph
knew the password
to enter the Lodge.

He who was descended from a great and noble line,
descended from the deposed kings of Egypt
and from the alchemists of God,

Joseph who descended from
that primeval Master of the Craft,
Tubal-Cain, instructor of every artificer in brass and iron,
intolerable in battle and bold,

Silent Saint Joseph
did not so receive it
and neither so would he impart it
by letter or by syllable.

Joseph, imitator of Hiram Abiff
who concealed the secrets of Hermes
in the floor-plan of Solomon’s Temple
and would not reveal them
though he be struck dead.

He knew where the treasure was buried,
but what is more,
he knew where the bodies were buried.
He knew the contents of the missing 18 ½ minutes
in the Nixon White House Tapes.

but Silent Saint Joseph
knew how to keep a secret.