Readings: A Prophetic Poem

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Obituary for the middle class

This whole thing, this way of living beside a can opener

beside a microwave beside a son beside a daughter

beside a river going to college, you get up

and kiss the mortgage and go go go with coffee-veins

and burger-fries and pack your soul on ice

till sixty-five, when you sit down with a lake

and have a long talk with your breath

and cast your mind far away from shore, fish nibbling

the mosquitoes of your thoughts: they will whisper of this life

a hundred years from now to children before sleep

who will call them liars, “Once upon a time,

they had two and half bathrooms and tiny houses

for their cars and doctors who listened

through tubes to their fat hearts, they named

their endeavors and beliefs four-wheel drive,

twenty-percent-off sale, summer vacation, colonoscopy,

variable-rate loan, inheritance,” and we will be

as gods to them in that they won’t believe in us,

and we will be spared the eternity of their worship

as they will be spared money, the counting

and the having and the memory of the middle share

of what gets harder and harder to call a pie

~ from Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok

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Rodak's Writings: Optimism

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Optimism

I woke up

feeling nuttier

than a Mormon.

I figured I could take a second wife.

I could turn the two of them out

as a tag team

on the mud wrestling circuit.

I could make a million bucks

and retire to Boca Raton

with my girlfriend.

I could spend

the rest of eternity

on a nude beach,

tossing bright red chunks

of the loser I used to be

to the screaming white gulls

of deep blue heaven.

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Rodak's Writings: Whenever

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First I discovered

the poet and writer

Maggie Estep

by reading her obit

in the NY Times.

Next I began

listening to the songs

of Judee Sill dead

way back in ‘79

whose name

I had never known

until someone

dropped it last week.

Now I want

Maggie to tell

me a new story

Judee to sing

me a new song.

Only show me the door.

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Riffs: Religiolitics

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It now seems certain that the crisis in the Ukraine is merely one more subtle element of B. Hussein Obama's Islamo-Marxist plot to destroy the Church--and thus all true religion--by forcing Catholic employers to indirectly fund employees' demonic use of artificial birth control through ACA-compliant insurance plans. Film at 11.

 

If Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and other atheists are allowed to have fewer children how can the Church long survive?

How long must America's millions of persecuted faithful wait for Pope Francis to raise an army of the righteous in order to launch a Just War in their defense? With many more eager martyrs tunneling in from the south on a daily basis, the time to strike is NOW.

Concerned citizens may wish to form alliances with one of more of the following right-minded organizations:

Lutherans for Large Litters
Calvinists Calving for Christ
The Baby-Bump Baptists
Methodists for the Maintenance of Maternity
Congregationalists Coupling for Conception
Episcopalians for Exponential Population Explosion
Unitarians for Fertile Friendships, or
Mormons for More Mormons

 

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