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Translucent
4-26-15


Rock on, O Chalcedony
Party on yeah poet and scholar
For a cat never in need of a flea collar
Translucent and transparent of milky and grayish quartz
With microscopic crystals of all kinds and sorts
The Word sometimes can be gruesome
Where I started smoking with Newports
Elders next to the slain
For pleasure and for pain
To wash their hands over the heifer
Beheaded in the valley
Call it murder
But this is what they did about it
To say our hands did not shed this blood
Neither have our eyes seen it....








An Holy Hug
4-26-15


In deep study of Scripture
So shall you enter the Way, the path and the light
Where darkness must yet dissipate
One extreme to another
Dylan and White Zombie
A great combination for poets
Loving the cool breeze through my east window
Where blood will be forgiven them
It is good for a man not to touch a woman
I made my entrance and she gave me a hug
I felt quite welcome
With love that acts like a drug
Again I needed new blinds
But I failed to draw them when I am naked
To put off my raiment of captivity and get into something cleaner
For discernment and demeanor...








Rave-Up
4-26-15


Dilapitated and ratty
Rough sounding and harsh
It's all music to my beaten up ears
Boisterous and raucous
Not according to my fears
To rave-up and give vigor and to stir in milk
And add synthetic sugar
Still living in this rattrap of mine
But no worries now about needing to get out and get my wine
Ephemeral and lasting
Life is but a handbreadth
Compared to the rest of eternity
Poets often die young
And I accept these terms
Where the brightest flame burns quickest....








Shopping Trip
4-26-15


All my needs at stake
As one to give and not to take
I made my grocery list
To yet fake and make
And I see an employee taking a cigarette break
To ask how he likes the job of stocking
Getting through his day and a rocking
Give the king your judgments O God
And your righteousness to the king's son
We ask was Solomon faithful
He had a lot on his plate
He owned everything a man could ever want
That God did but create
I need to do this tomorrow
And I pray for good success in such
Amen and amen...








Turning My Calendars
4-26-15


Someday you'll be glad to have me around
I didn't mean to be a burden
I just want to be your friend
We will all understand one another in the end
Flipping my calendar over to May
Need a new bottle of multivitamins
Another siren
Another family to pray for
So much grief in the world
And folks that have it worse than we do
As the word hated so meant loved less
O, does God have partiality
In every nook and cranny
Acknowledge the Son and your have the Father
Ask a hard thing
Ask for a double portion today as you sing...










Preference Of The Dark
4-27-15


By my nocturne preference
I like the dark
In that it is peaceful and calm
Two more hours of daylight
I need to set it all aside and get something to eat
Had another retail dream about picking up trash
He said I needed to haul ass tomorrow
But I told him I was used to it
I am honest with my doctor today
I tell him that I'm not ready to quit smoking
Starting out the day with Stoner rock
Up at five, the door I need not lock
Be very brave, pensive and thoughtful
I am what I am in Jesus...