"They got together and swore a pact to the Devil . . .
. . . and the Devil said, 'Okay, it's a deal!' "
--Pat Robertson
Since they have made a bargain with the Devil,
Then as their city has been shaken level,
We do not need to feel compassion's pain.
They may be dismissed with smug disdain.
They brought upon themselves their sorry plight,
So we may watch them swallowed up by night
And feel no pang of conscience or identity
Since they consorted with the evil entity.
We may praise Our Lord in blithe felicity,
Remaining unaware of our duplicity;
As woe befalls that dark and sinful race,
We are protected by His saving Grace.
The Lord has chosen; He has chosen well:
For we are spared, and they can go to Hell!
1-19-2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
There was a young man
There was a young man in Benares
Who was heard to inquire of the fairies,
"What's the mystery of Death?"
And they spoke in one breath,
"It's always the same, though it varies.
You're born and you live and you cry,
You love and you laugh and you die."
He found it perplexing
And exceedingly vexing
That they never revealed to him why.
9-18-2010
Who was heard to inquire of the fairies,
"What's the mystery of Death?"
And they spoke in one breath,
"It's always the same, though it varies.
You're born and you live and you cry,
You love and you laugh and you die."
He found it perplexing
And exceedingly vexing
That they never revealed to him why.
9-18-2010
The enemy
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
until our enemy is dead and then
the bloody farce is played out yet again
and on and on and never does it end
2-17-2010
until our enemy is dead and then
the bloody farce is played out yet again
and on and on and never does it end
2-17-2010
Bubble
Since bursting the financial bubble
The country's had nothing but trouble.
So Wall Street relapses
And we pay the taxes,
And our children inherit the rubble.
9-21-2008
The country's had nothing but trouble.
So Wall Street relapses
And we pay the taxes,
And our children inherit the rubble.
9-21-2008
Jesus Loves Me
Jesus loves me, this I know,
'Cause the Bible tells me so.
For my sins I'm off the hook,
'Cause it say so in this Book.
Come the Rapture I will fly
To meet Jesus in the sky.
I believe it, yes siree,
Despite its bald absurdity.
If you don't agree with me
You'll be damned eternally.
9-21-2010
'Cause the Bible tells me so.
For my sins I'm off the hook,
'Cause it say so in this Book.
Come the Rapture I will fly
To meet Jesus in the sky.
I believe it, yes siree,
Despite its bald absurdity.
If you don't agree with me
You'll be damned eternally.
9-21-2010
Jack and Jill
Jack took Jill around the hill
To get a little nookie.
When she put out, he gave a shout
And handed her a cookie.
To get a little nookie.
When she put out, he gave a shout
And handed her a cookie.
Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner
Crouched in the corner,
Eating his sweetie pie.
He poked his thumb
Right up her bum.
And exclaimed, "Oh, how lucky am I!"
Crouched in the corner,
Eating his sweetie pie.
He poked his thumb
Right up her bum.
And exclaimed, "Oh, how lucky am I!"
Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her tuffet,
Eating her cottage cheese.
Along came a spider
Who sat down beside her:
"May I have a bite of that, please?"
Sat on her tuffet,
Eating her cottage cheese.
Along came a spider
Who sat down beside her:
"May I have a bite of that, please?"
Tea Time
Hard-hearted Hannah and hard-headed Hank
Ripping up the carcasses in the shark tank,
Well-meaning peasants whipped into a rage,
Lured by lies of freedom right into a cage.
The pious tricked by cynics to cut their own throats,
Suckered into sinking their own boats.
9-23-2010
Ripping up the carcasses in the shark tank,
Well-meaning peasants whipped into a rage,
Lured by lies of freedom right into a cage.
The pious tricked by cynics to cut their own throats,
Suckered into sinking their own boats.
9-23-2010
KIDS
(with a nod to Carl Sandburg)
The kids come
on little mud feet.
They charge yelling
through kitchen and parlor
in breathless excitement
and then move on.
shady
I can't shake the feeling
that something very shady
has been going on
I can't believe the story
that explains it all away
and leaves us hanging on
that something very shady
has been going on
I can't believe the story
that explains it all away
and leaves us hanging on
Entangled
Entangled in ten thousand things
With the joys and the sorrows that brings,
I sit down to enter
The still, empty center,
And that's when the telephone rings.
9-22-2010
With the joys and the sorrows that brings,
I sit down to enter
The still, empty center,
And that's when the telephone rings.
9-22-2010
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