Friday, August 04, 2006

Sweet Shadows [From: ‘The Cadaverous Beasts of SSARG…’]

She hears echoes in the shadows
“Come follow, come follow”
Leave Kings to Kings
And Queens to Queens
That will bring
Sorrow and laughter
Tomorrow.”
The wild shadow bears a hum,
Sunlight passes making to tremble
Veils of gray;
As they softly, shyly undo
[Stirred]
The dark, —
And say, “…here I am!”
(Now hurry over the darkness
And Pray!)

#1330 4/29/06 [#2]
The Devil’s Sack

“Devil, O Devil! What have we here?
is your sack filled with cow-dung
or cheer?
“Perhaps, pale souls, you stole—
long ago, from temples, far and near?”

[The Devil says:]

“Why was Christ a loving Son? A mission!
A mission, my impudent human; He came
down from heaven (like I)
to save everyone, and die;
It was simply His Mission, contrary to mine.

“And away I fly, ever-so joyful, around
the globe…the world is my haven, my goal!

“It’s what I feel I was created to do: of
course we all say that don’t we—such fools?

“Anyhow, in this sack, lapped across
my wing filled back—are little gnats
(and stones) prideful little things from hell,
sucks the marrow out of the soul!

“And these stones, part cobweb, part bones
I sprinkle them all over kingdom-come…
that’s my mission~!...my son.


#1255 3/1/06