#1428 - everyone should write a bible

 

1428

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29.xi.23

everyone should write a bible

for godsbother

 

their own, I mean

a book for one

 

made of all the selves we were

seeming at once

 

big, thick book

all begot and begat

hide bound

to keep out the showers

 

every one of us ought to make

something to believe on

 

carry it with you wherever

as far as all time

 

turn to a random page for luck

it’s just as prophesied

through a glass darkly

 

the many mansions

proverbial

 

everyone’s a messenger

who knows what they’ll tell?

 

it’s gospel

and turn the story over

there’s dashcam

 

nor can such a book ever fill up

 

full of years

it will consist of how we’ve come

no matter what you think

 

so many styles

and ways with words

 

plagues famines

floods

 

brimstone gnashings

truth to set free

 

everyone needs one of these

 

who isn’t a little stiff in the neck?

who wouldn’t want a footstool of enemy?

 

we, all of us, Caesar’s slaves, for a shekel

 

it’s rarest of injustices ever make angels

 

bible, on the other hand, is much of a hutch

you can hunker down

climb aboard

till mountain and dove

 

there’s one in each of us at least

 

tall tales

and something for everyone

 

little woe betide

 

and in the beginning

though there is none

 

not a barber in sight

declaim

 

set up these tablets

and swallow

 

some of your own medicine