These are the words of my father And of his father, And of his father’s father, pre-armada Phrases trapped in millennia, confined Bound by the wicked, sequestering their brilliance And yet, they travelled We see We see what began as the mouth of a river, begat great waves Endless swells of foaming ears quivering Eager as the slick of a pauper whore Rife with the Great Perplexion The diction routing fiends from our midst, in the very thick Like the spiders ‘neath the pews His name be praised Witness their arrogance rise as pillars of incense and then, as wax, retreat Sweating banners before the “all oh, my” Raven tapestries turned pendulums, transformed Blind, face first to the dawn We trace the shadows West, due Deus His name be praised Wheel upon wheel Without question ours was a migrant fortress Over swamp and plain, dell and dale Like the swarm’s ancient vendetta to feed, grinding the seed We of the book Bearing light and then fire To the expanse of those who moved with the beasts Lecherous, dagger-toothed thieves Villains disguised as converts These who would scrape their plates in the same mud they built their shit huts with Incontrite Ignorant as the shackled amputee Resistant as a hogs firm snout, filled with worms Proverbs made flesh How sour a lesson we perceive in the savagery of the unacquainted How they wailed and wailed As if pleading for perdition Begging, clawing the sky as if grasp it’s divine cartograph and draw it contorting to the muck where each bled rutted and died Betraying the grand design Suits ill-fit as the pelts hung to dry Trophies turned burial shrouds to heathen priests Folly of the untrained, illiterate wretches Tutorless, cave swine Vermin easily penned Now we see prescient victory as planned Now we see Jeshua, Jeshua drowned in the baptismal font Now we see shifting our gaze further on to the horizon the bitch Goddess herself The Ladder of Pearls Seated above the Red canal like a crow perched His Truth cascading from both corners of her mouth, spent plasma from every star’s radius An infinite center Vacuous circumference Pilfering the gift from her belly Restoring it under our Lord’s tongue like the asp’s guarded nest Thine will is triumph Like waves on blood ocean Coming over and over And over and over again Like rage and devotion Killing over and over And over and over again

As Long As You Please Do preserve my soul For I am loyal O thou, my God Save your servant Who puts his trust in thee Protect my soul For I am faithful Oh, God save your servant Who soldiers thy charge Keep my soul For I am holy Deliver your helper Save my soul For I am yours As a child As a man As a ghost (The Child) As long as your please : Kneel Please : Seek ye first Seek ye first his kingdom and his righteousness All things shall be given unto you His grace moves faster the taller your yoke Love your master Love your master as the frog loves the hook His mirror gaze, skyward view Thankful Stuffed Pleased Just as every thief loves a crook, every rainmaker seeds the skies of an unplowed dog’s dream As long as you please (The Man) As long as you please Once picked Bullwork seized Like a denned mother stroking her knees An apron string bridle Weaving hands to bless the feed bag His name be praised Feel the deacon’s hands over a colder bath The hen, The egg, The nest Its where you end up Crushed tracks on either side Arms crossed as the din of worship ascends Let it be in me Let it enter unseen Release me Exorcise the starved dog, let it’s lead fall into that pit Forgotten Never full, never whole In that fever mine where we’d lay and pray for disguise Pray not to be found Pray for the end As long as you please (The Ghost) : Kneel Please : As long as you please Proselytize for lift Thrust ecumenical grift Shear off their wings Bury the heads in a ditch Remodeled renaissance, poached psalms from the old Gods Zealotry sealed in secret handshakes and nods A man could die for this? Get crucified for this? Genuflect and let the beltway grip your ears, eyes, and neck This is death by degrees Bullwork seized As long as you please NONE WAS MADE BY HIS HAND SAVE CHAINS NONE WAS MADE BY HIS HAND SAVE SLAVES NONE WAS MADE BY HIS HAND SAVE CHAINS NONE WAS MADE BY HIS HAND SAVE GRAVES It’s smoldering in the yard All eyes behold gods ignorance The fire devours us all The hate and fear you read from your text This comfort was built with your bones The fat and the meat and the souls (Gods ignorance) Is it too much to ask to belong? The believers they lied about love (Gods ignorance) Hatred raised by ancient fear Of smiles and words that you don’t speak Your words from books of holy prayer Used to oppress the poor and weak The blame is in our grabbing hands Our greed that lays the world to waste Benign the colors of the land Obscene the fear of other ways Ignorance on gods sweet tongue A bitter scream in stained glass ears As hatred spills from Jesus’ cup You’ve lapped it up for all these years You bathe in it to purify And call yourselves the master race You hide behind an empty throne Convinced that bigotry is grace.

SAVE US FROM US (death sermon by Jim Jones)

THE MACHINE IN THE GROUND KEPT EVERYONE WARM ROLLING SUN, OVER MOON, OVER SUN SEASON UPON SEASON UNTIL IT STOPPED NO ONE KNEW DAY FROM NIGHT WE SENT A MAN DOWN TO SPY THE CAUSE SPLAYED ACROSS THE GREAT COGS KEEN EYES GLEANED AN OBSTRUCTION ALL THE CRITTERS AND BEASTS HELD THEIR BREATH AS HE REACHED, HE FELL WE HEARD A VOICE HIS NAME BE PRAISED! HIS BLOOD FREED THE GEARS WE TURN AGAIN SLOWLY HAD WE FOOLED THE RIG? PRESERVED A TRUTH? SOWN A FUTURE? "NO MATTER, WE TURN AGAIN" GREASED, GRACED, AND HUNGRY THE MACHINE IN THE GROUND CHURNED AND HUMMED LIKE A MOTHER TO NEWBORN CONSTELLATIONS REBORN AS SWIRLING WATCHMEN TWINKLING EYES IN TAR PITS UNTIL THEY STOPPED NO ONE KNEW NIGHT FROM DAY WE SENT A MAN AND AS HE STOOPED HE CRIED OUT, "I SEE!" AS HE REACHED, HE FELL HIS NAME BE PRAISED! BUT THE FANGS STILL SIEZED "WHAT OF HIS BLOOD?" NEXT MAN SENT WE HEARD A VOICE "I SEE!" THEN VANISHED LIKE A PHANTOM STONE NITHER QUAKE, NOR STIR ANOTHER, AND ANOTHER, AND MORE CONSCRIPTED MORE SIGHT MORE SILENCE MORE BLOOD NO MOVEMENT GAZING NOW INTO THE MAWE OF OUR DIVINE MECHANISM I SEE NOTHING GOODNIGHT CHILDREN "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." (save yourself from hell)

(americans are religious, god"s in the mix, that's what makes america great)(?) I've been thinking, what's wrong with us? and it's already enough to dig me a hole. You've been screaming what's wrong with us. and its' already enough to send me below. under the weight of guilt breed it in another wave rolls in it's a beautiful world a beautiful world. Is it? it's a pitiful world a pitiful world is it? you didn't ask you didn't ask for it we didn't ask we didn't ask for it spit from the ash out of the black into into the bath into your lap just to wish to go back wish to go back into wish to go back wish to go back into into the world the beautiful world..... maybe we'll laugh maybe we'll laugh at it when we look back when we look back on it maybe we'll die maybe we'll just end it then we can laugh then we can laugh at it..... under the weight of guilt breed it in another wave rolls in under the weight of another wave under the weight of your own skin

Should old traditions be forgot And never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot And old lang syne? For auld lang syne my dear For auld lang syne We'll take a cup of kindness yet For old lang syne