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Glissando
4-18-14


Today I quote Scripture
At the lunch table with Mother and sister
Giving me the desire to write these rhymes today
Until I get a blister
Today I quote Scripture
Like this day were my last
As I set sail be means of my fore and aft mast
By another mysterious glissando
To support me in my endeavors
To try to forget the past
Take no gift
For a gift doth blind the wise
But accept it on you birthday
Over burgers and fries
Don't forget to put the cigarette out
Before you dump the ashtray
She just said no...










It Worked
4-18-14


This is what I was looking forward to
Teaching me to say "If the good Lord is willing"
It's not exactly the way I expected it
But I know there will be better ones
Lord willing
Not to offer the blood with leaven
In that I need reassurance
Of an eternity in heaven
Not to seethe a kid in his mother's milk
Being as one to recommend chapter eleven
Now there arose a new king over Egypt
Whom did not know Joseph
And he was put here for a purpose
According to God's plan
His heart was hardened
To give our hero a challenge
Yeah, it worked...












The Spirit Writes My Next Chapter
4-18-14


God prepares a deliverer
Moses is born
You might be asking
"What does this have to do with anything"
In ones findings of a new identity
I grope in the darkness
Towards my smoking table
With hopes in a brighter tomorrow
Hornets are sent before me
To drive out the Canaanites
Such giants will be as bread
So I can have myself much less sleepless nights
Making no covenant with them
I find it better to go my own way
Joseph was in Egypt already
As so the Spirit will write my next chapter...
























Selvedge
4-19-14


Let's get it back together
Concerning protuberances
Standing out in a crowd inside my head
Let it go, my friend
Glad that the music is loud
Give it up to He whom rises from the dead
Tomorrow as so today anything goes
According to my joy in this sorrow
Let it go, my friend
According to the time and money
I lend and borrow
By the selvedge and coupling
And the king that knew not Joseph
By ones fifty taches of gold
And the coffee that is in the making
She is strong today
Like the poet that writes out the day's events...
















Skin
4-19-14


You don't need to do anything today
Save just this
I tell myself these words of exhortation
In basking in the bliss
Devising my ten curtains of purple, scarlet and blue
Where I see fit to extend mine extremities
To reach out to you
Tired of the water made as wine
Sick and tired of being sick and tired
In requiring a sign
Making my fifty loops
In each curtain
By rams' skins dyed red
As tomorrow my Jesus will rise from the dead
By badgers' skins dyed blue
I see fit to reach out to you....