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Ulterior
7-2-14


Thanking Jesus in all things
Even in my suffering
I could pray that my impediment would be yet loosed
But what challenge is in such
As it all seems all in vain
But to continue by this deponent
Standing without
Looking inward into another downward spiral
Threadlike and filamentous
Calcine and burning
Ulterior and intentionally kept and concealed
Setting myself up for success
As my chicanery and subterfuge
I learn these words for the cause
Of today's new rhyme and verse
I raise my hand and he calls on me
To bear my burden
And consider it a blessing
Even in my curse...












I Think Of A Clean Shave
7-2-14


Ninety degrees of solitude
Today is my fate
To be one to set up my tent
And to but build and create
Staying cool in my shelter and grotto
Wherein there is nothing to hate
Thinking about a clean shave
Later on today
But told to wait
All along the mountains of the moon
By chicanery, by subterfuge
In that it's not too late nor too soon
Remembering just how ridiculous it was last night
But willing to proceed
Dastardly and meanly base
In seeking today his face
Of ninety degrees of solitude
In being up before the light of day
Told to wait for it
To be given more to say

























Proceed
7-2-14


Therefore the law is slacked
And judgment doth not go forth
For the wicked encompass the righteous
And I quote this passage
For the cause of continuity
That makes us real
O, why doth thou shew me iniquity
In the midst of what is right
According to what we can but see
Therefore the law is slacked
According to the real me
Behold ye among the heathen
And regard
I am not one to judge
In that I do the same things
But I am one to speak of what I have seen
Soon to change out of yesterday's shirt of green....












Platte
7-2-14


By the river Platte
I dwell today with my cat
Not my own but of he
That gives us all these blessings freely
Running into the state of nostalgia
Just where it's all at
By the junction of one's north and south
By the delta and by the mouth
By the larkspur and the buttercup
Looking inward and outward and up
I don't know where to go from here
According to the spur shaped formation
Of the calyx and its petals
I will keep on trucking
Even in brambles and nettles....












Bast
7-2-14


By peppermint and peppercorn
I am no longer quite as forlorn
Returning to my post again
To lay off the internet porn
At least until this evening
As I bless the day that I am born
As another mission is accomplished
As new blinds are up
As I refill again another coffee cup
By my rondel and serenade
And food this evening readymade
By my clean shave as my bills are paid
By my bast, my flax and my hemp and my jute
Glad of all of my plunder and loot
Of hoary hair of the ancient and venerable
As I kick off again my left boot
By peppercorn and peppermint
In a new reality
To strike again the flint....












Shrive
7-2-14


Imposing penance
And shriving the sinner
The loser is later named as the winner
To grant one's absolution
Over a TV dinner
Given a slow start to another bright day
Preparing for the storm that is yet to come our way
And now let's go and run and see
Just what can be of the real you and the true me
Imposing penance
To make up for all that I did lack
To yet souse and immense
And keep condensation yet in suspense
Yet to steep in one's pickling
Minding the brine
In reading it to but weep
And to rejoice in all I sow and reap...

























Daft
7-2-14


Ancient and venerable
And tedious from familiarity
O, would you hear my voice come through the music
Gray and white with age
I shave off my beard and go clean cut
There is a fountain not made by hands of man
With no if, and or but
Lo, I raise up Chaldeans
To possess our dwelling places
When we get in a rut
I am what I am today
As another honey coated peanut
Mad and daft
By stave and shaft
They are feared and dreadful
Yet to proceed of themselves
As soon the rain is going to come....













Spruce
7-2-14


Yet to march on through the breadth of the land
Yet to seek to be as one to understand
Forsaking this duality
To spruce up what is set in place
By God's hand yet to titivate by integrity
Building castles in the sand
With nostalgic lady friends
In a photograph of when I was there
Allowing the sun to shine forth
Through my new blinds
As today I intercede
For all hearts and minds
I'm glad that it's a done deal
At least for today....