In the beginning
a man and a woman
have a snack
and think, "oh, god,
what have we done?"
and their sons invent
homocide
while Abraham's hand
wavers over Isaac,
moses juggles two
tablets as he
climbs down from
the mount,
and Noah counts
the tortoises
on the Lido deck.
Joseph wears
a multi-colored
coat that ends
up Off-Broadway
while Samson gets
his haircut by
a vixen. Solomon
is wise, Job has it
bad, and David
is king, although he
does some naughty
things to get there.
In the second act,
there is a star
and a virgin
and a confused carpenter
and John the Baptist's
head
on a platter
but before that,
there is a humble
man who speaks of peace
and gives the world
his outstretched
arms, the very ones
they took and nailed
to a hateful, wooden world.
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