[stylist] Poem - "Jesus" - First Draft

[Bridgit Pollpeter via stylist]

Bill,

Thanks for sharing. As always, beautiful. Very vivid descriptions and
full of pathos. Maybe some of the specific descriptions can be
re-worked, such as, "trained to the tune of a gun," but I like it
nonetheless.

Bridgit


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Subject: [stylist] Poem - "Jesus" - First Draft


Hi Blinks,

I wrote this one yesterday.  I think I might have more to say on this 
subject, but I'm not yet sure it belongs in this poem, and I'm not quite

sure that it doesn't.  Ambivalence is my middle name after all, ha.  
Poem follows below signature.


--Bil


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When someone brings beauty

out of that bitter old ruin,

I fly for a minute or two,

my heels half hovering, half stomping

with yes and joyful grooves,

so used I am to savior nailed up

on vicious plans:burn the faggots,

burn the lefties, burn them all.

As if God were some Gestapo's

wolvish hound or hobgoblin,

trained to the tune of a gun

or some black madame's whistle and whip:

monster and prophet, presodemt of some

peculiar skyllike hell.

As for me, I think he came once

to the world, and the second time must

arrive in our heartsblood grottoes:

alive, ablaze, and

hilarious earthwise whole.





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