Today's sermon is up on its hind legs, begging.
Today's sermon is gonna cut you while you're singing.
Today's sermon is demanding, like an overdue bill.
Today's sermon wheedles through its nose--
today's sermon sleeps with your husband
giving him (and you) a raging dose.
Today's sermon stands astride mighty mountains
and tunnels underneath your secret sins.
Today's sermon may be placed in a vase of water
or morph into a chia pet that ends as it begins.
Today's sermon don't care.
Today's sermon is always there,
watching you fuck up from thin air.
Today's sermon was born in a humble stable.
Today's sermon jacks the roast right off your table.
Today's sermon cracks wise and has glitter-ball eyes.
Today's sermon can bust a move and run a real dope enterprise.
Come close for the sermon I speak.
Come quickly--I ain't got all week.
Come in, douse the lights, go ahead and wet your beak.
Today's sermon can be delivered right to your door.
Use the easy autopayments that continue evermore.
Today's sermon comes on quick to raise the dead.
Today's sermon comes factory-sealed like I said.
Today's sermon can rhyme if it so choose.
Today's sermon says heads I win, tails you lose.
Eat today's sermon in big chunks until you're dead.
Today's sermon means nobody any harm--
is safe as milk, sweet as candy, warm as toast.
Today's sermon wraps itself around your heart
and leaves its mark on every motherfuckin' part.
Today's sermon is lit
Today's sermon is it.
Today's sermon isn't over--you'd damn well better sit.
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for What's Going On? "Today's Sermon"
Music: Concrete Blonde Jonestown
Today's sermon packs a wallop and makes you sit up straight. It makes you smile in wry appreciation of the poet's outlook. I loved this. Big grin on my face.
ReplyDeleteAnd Today's Sermon begs to be read aloud, when it really shines! Some priceless lines, and the ending makes me smile!
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing, Shay! Love the whole thing but especially:
ReplyDelete"Today's sermon cracks wise and has glitter-ball eyes."
And the whole of the final stanza! 🙂
Today's sermon is powerful full of truth and grit.
ReplyDeleteToday's sermon means nobody any harm-- but, somehow the knife is felt no matter how deep.
The repetition of the words 'today's sermon' certainly packed a punch. It made me squirm. Suzanne - Wayfaring - Wordpress blog.
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