ten times ten birds
upon a wire
Yahweh looks down
with eyes of fire
points a finger
shouts, HEE HEE!
and blasts the birds
with hellish glee
ninety-nine birds
burst with a caw
the last bird laughs:
HAW HAW! HAW HAW!
now God, he frowns
he points anew
I'LL TURN THIS BIRD
INTO GODDAMN STEW!
he fires a bolt
it sears the sky
and hits the bird
square in the eye
the bird just laughs
absorbs the hit
HA HA, it shouts
YOUR AIM IS SHIT!
God ain't happy
he's damn disturbed
the bird sits there
quite unperturbed
FUCK YOU, BIRDIE!
screams wrathful God
I'LL TREAT YOU LIKE
A LIGHTNING ROD!
good as his word
God blasts again
his boundless wrath
beyond our ken
he fires and fires
the lightning flies
and through it all
we hear God's cries
DAMN YOU, BIRDIE!
DAMN YOU TO HELL!
EACH TIME I SHOOT,
I MAKE YOU SWELL!!
and with each blast
the bird inflates
'til it's as big
as Heaven's gates
and with each strike
the bird does scoff
HA HA! HA HA!
YOUR TIMING'S OFF!
so to this day
the fight goes on
God and bird 'til
the eschaton
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Impervious Bird: a poem (redux, redraft)
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Great! Again, I say collect 'em and submit to Emanations II.
ReplyDeleteSubmit, Kevin. Be not like unto that bird. Submit.
Jeffery Hodges
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Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI think the idea of Bird as cosmic adversary to God is perversely intriguing. Remember:
1. In the beginning was the Word.
2. The Bird is the Word.
Thus, logically...