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Brad
10-20-14


Come the importance of evangelism
Come its essentials
Not to trust in mine own righteousness
Of all that is existential
It was another breakthrough
To grow my own maize
And to persevere
For the rest of my days
Where confrontation so pays
Come the chime of ten
I embrace such a reverie in its daze
Tomorrow is going to be a good day
According to all auspice and its craze
Come the importance of reaching out
I hit the nail head
On into my plywood
Of these passions...


















A.D.D.
10-20-14


By my attention deficit
By the cat that leaps back upon my love seat
I push her down and she leaps back up
To set out on the road again
In these reveries
You can do anything when you put your mind to it
As its effects are nonlinear
Of my observation undivided
There is nothing wrong with taking up this worldly profession
When it comes to the confrontation in its confession
By my attention deficit
I press onward
Letting the hands of the clock fly away
Like butterflies that want to climb back into their cocoons
By many new and full moons
I am just as I am....








Just Hin
10-20-14


Unaccompanied madrigal
Secular vocal compositions
Are just as they are
By my pines and madronas and compromise
In all of my lies
In asking of whys
As time instead flies
A good source of oil
To no longer thwart or foil
O, will he be positive or just be real
Given the hin, the ephah the shekel and its deal
I make the best of such sanity that remains
But not according to what I might feel
By the unaccompanied madrigal
I will rock on in spite of all the discontent
As he has done what is lawful and right
Shall surely live....
































Joist
10-20-14


By parallel beams of timber and steel
By those joists that doth make it real
By my searching and findings of my next meal
Come reinforced concrete
And something good to eat
By just hin, just ephah and just deal
Hello, do you want a cup of coffee
For the way that you feel
To support my ceiling and its floor
To but rest and heal
By satchel and shoulder strap
Carrying these confrontations in plastic bags
Up my front steps
I make my way in with these cosmetics
I'm there and yeah, I'm here
Of our captivity
In the twelfth year...








Smitten
10-20-14


Coming to me to say that the city is smitten
Infatuated by another composition carelessly written
To escape out of Jerusalem
Like a curious kitten
Vacillating between continuing
And putting a stop to the music
By which I'm frostbitten
Wanting to get it all out of the way
For the cause of facing up to it
As the hand of God is upon me
In the evening
In the moment of clarity fared as charity does
Sailing to my Archpeligo
In no further need to get up and go
I am happy in being right here
Infatuated.....


















Flue
10-20-14


Our Abraham is One
As I am today but Two
Personified today as the sun
In being one of the few
And now that my work is done
I can start out again in writing something new
Rolling in your arms
As love looms into view
Loving here and now the madness
As it is my serenity
By those that inhabit the wastes
Of the land of Israel
I am one to embrace all chaos and disarray
Watching out for pigs by the narrow way
The land is given to us for an inheritance
Our Abraham is One
Come the flue in my chimney
I downsize while under the gun...