The True Artist Lives By His Art, or Dies. He Does No Harm to Anyone for not Receiving Him.
O flag, flying at half staff
Stand tall, proud.
Men die, and people perish.
Let not your citizens peril.
Fly, raise up on your pole.
Men have been
Since the beginning of time
Murderers. Do you not know?
Why do you sag at every child’s ill fate?
Why do you stoop at every crowd maligned?
Know this, Star Spangled Banner
When you stoop twenty days of each month
The people stoop with you.
Christ.
‘When I was young,
I had a mulberry tree outside my front porch.
I gleaned all of the fruit off the street
Then stood on the electric dispenser
And began taking them off the boughs of the tree.
We ended up with a bucket filled with mulberries.
We ate nearly an eighth of them.
The rest went to waste.
In life, we’re like this.
That is what the law means by saying,
‘”When you come across an egg
“In a tree, leave the mother.”
When at work,
People have to pay for their food.
The reason why is because of the former.
Yet, the scripture says,
“Do not muzzle the ox.”
That means it is lawful
To allow those who work for you
To eat your food for free.
It is unlawful to not allow them to eat your food for free.
Yet, because the former law is not observed
People are leery about observing the latter law.
Our economic situation is this:
“Muzzle the ox, take the mother.”
That is why all are burdened.
We are all degenerate
Serial rapists, murderers, cannibals
Drug addicts, adulterers, child abusers
And meet Jesus.
We say a thousand times we doesn’t need Jesus
Because we are pretty swell.
Jesus says, “I see there is some good in you.”
So, Jesus spends the better part of our lives
Trying to get himself caught for our sin.
Jesus does get caught, when we confess Him as LORD,
And then Jesus gets put on death row
Where He’s beaten up in prison,
Stabbed, and fed gross food.
We someday forget all of what we did
While Jesus is the one found guilty for all of our sins.
This is a helpful tool for understanding Christ.
We all are the degenerate fools;
Jesus is the Christ.
Wasn’t our LORD something of a radical?
Torrid, swells
The aquamarine aquatic, torpedoes
To the zealous fate of antlers
Bucking in the wood
Of jousting imbeciles
Wondering, nonsense is the word
To the arrows of squalor pits
In the southern sphere of the flat earther
Birther, certificates of divorce
Yet, reacquaint with me
For none know their murders
Their slanders
Their thefts.
All are murderous
To the wretched swells…
Thus, deeply laden is the sin
Which torpedoes to the crux of civilization.
Into the demon reality
Goes the weary mind
To the swells of the oceans felt
Yet, flee from the nonsense!
’tis only nonsense.
That is what it means
When Jesus washes away our sins.
The mermaids live in the yellow submarine
The giants in the plane beneath the earth;
To this yellow submarine
Goes our sin.
Wretched, redeemer Himself
Ran to us with blood soaked hands
Redemption
Our spotted souls
Need only succumb.
Flesh rots, stunk up the carcass
Of our six hundred and sixty-six lies.
For money, for fame
To see the lands beneath our lands
In leviathan’s belly;
Torpedoes the soul
To the land of candy and answers
Where the childish souls
Seek to die. Oh how they seek to die
In a land of candy and answers
Where above that, say, is the heavens of heavens of.
I skipped to it, yet was freed.
By blood, soaked in the cloth of Turin
Where my heart was made and ripped into bands
Knowing the full breadth of sin
Could be laden on my
Time phased heart.
A thousand lives, a thousand lives
We live it, and are shifted.
The blood and water washed them all away.
The Empress Shi Wu was extraordinarily beautiful.
Her bosom was supple,
Her face like a well sculpted diamond,
Her stomach like a sack of wheat
With four precious stones,
Her legs were thighs of strength
And her feet were like sparrows.
Her hair was that of a frame
Which framed beauty incarnate.
At the beginning of her reign
She saw the people were poor.
So, she began by making the people richer
By adding tin to their silver coin.
This, by reason,
Made the coin much more plenteous.
The people became poor.
Then, she began to build the merchant guilds.
These guilds she would cause to make merchandise for the poor.
The merchants built and made much merchandise,
So Shi Wu put more coin into the land to buy merchandise.
But, the merchants ended up with all the coin,
And would melt them to make pure silver,
Buying the poor’s merchandise with the dross.
Shi Wu then began to become rich by the merchants
Who supplied her treasury with great merchandise,
Even from greater Persia all the way from the other china.
Shi Wu became exceedingly rich.
The people became poor.
The people had traditions,
The people had great science.
Their science said the world was round
That God created the world through nature
And that men were made up of smaller parts.
Shi Wu then saw this.
She said, “Tell the people there is no God
“And that their traditions are worthless.
“That their God says the earth is flat
“And that God did not use nature to make the earth.
“This way, they must buy more.
“Make enriching me their religion.”
So, she did.
The people had tin
And not silver,
And a shekel of tin was worth a grain of wheat.
The people became poor.
But Shi Wu, they heard,
Said that their traditions were stupid.
So, the people began to believe that the earth was flat
Rather than believe Shi Wu.
Obviously, if the earth were flat,
It would explain the lie of Shi Wu.
The people also believed that people
Were not made of smaller parts…
Rather, the people were just one whole
Flesh of writhing sinew.
Their traditions, they thought,
Were correct, so when Shi Wu said
The traditions of the ancestors were that men were sinew
And that the world were flat,
The people began to believe their traditions
Instead of Shi Wu.
This angered Shi Wu,
So she began to tax the people.
For, their traditions held that the earth was flat
And now the people believed the Earth was flat
Because of their traditions
Which Shi Wu said were not good.
Thus, Shi Wu in one last act of defiance
Disrobed, and called in every male within the borders of her country
To come and view her.
Lusty she was,
She did obscene things before their very eyes
Just to humiliate the traditions of their ancestors.
She said, “See! Is not my beauty sufficient?
“You all can have Shi Wu who wants her!”
But, there began a rumor saying,
“The Emperor wears no clothes.”
This angered Shi Wu,
So she said, “Anyone who says, ‘The Emperor wears no clothes,’
“This man, woman or child shall be put to death.”
But, the people, all having seen her shame
Did not believe her, though many were put to death.
For the traditions of the ancestors were stronger
Than the tradition of Shi Wu.
“Jesus, I have healed in Your name.
“Cast out demons, seen amputations healed.
“I had spoken Your word with truth.
“I have given what I could to the poor.
“I have tried to be kind, and give just reproof.
“I had tried to make the brokenhearted smile.
“I had done this all because I loved You
“And had believed You loved me too,”
Spoke Jesus’ friend Lazarus.
“Jesus, I had healed the lame
“And prophesied in Your Name.
“I tithed to the church my ten percent.
“I had not made sinners ashamed.
“I had done this because You glorified me,
“And I continually remembered Your burnt offering;
“I had known I am a sinner,
“So, therefore, by knowing I have sinned, I am justified,”
Said Judas Iscariot.
Just two-thirds a man,
His name is Sin; dawns crescent
Moon. A written snake.
Colonel Brandon had his say—marching with
Washington’s troop toward the Brandywine.
I say… Had Washington’s troops actually listened to that fellow
They’d have knocked him on his rear.
The story was made with today’s so called
“History.”
What we claim to know about the revolutionary war.
The fact is, it seems like rhetoric.
But… using that rhetoric
I wanted to show something good.
The fact that America is worth fighting to preserve.
The whims of an author cannot change history.
We can, rather, just put in our moral say
By the details we have given to us.
How the historical data says Washington’s troops were misers
When, historically, they probably believed very strongly
In the cause of the revolution.
I, rather, can have my say about what I want.
I can reinvent history.
I can rework truth
In order to present another truth.
Stories and works of fiction are never literally true.
In fact, they often get very details so wrong
It cannot be denied that the whole work seems flawed.
But, trade in one analogy for another
The truth is still in there without the details being accurate.
The truth is we, America today,
Are jaded and would not stand by Washington.
The fact is that today,
Washington and Adams and Franklin
Would be trolls on the internet
And nothing more than a blogger or a haphazard writer
Believing the lies about history we are taught.
Why do I bring this to bear?
Because the whole of the truth is that truth
In stories are present today, the age they are written.
And not in the past.
When we dramatize the past
With our stories, often it is today we are talking about.
When we watch the idyllic past
It is the past they are talking about.
Funny, isn’t it?
How art captures the ideal, and the truth
Of the age it is written in.
There were two men.
The first was a prophet.
The prophet, when he saw the wickedness of mankind
Would pray to the Father in heaven
And would accuse men of being wicked.
He would reprove for the sake of correction
And nothing he spoke was with intent to harm
But rather was with intent to increase faithfulness
Among the sons of men.
Never did he say, “You sin like thus,
“And, therefore, you are a worthless fellow.”
But rather, “The whole sins like thus,
“And your sins will condemn you.
“Not that I have never sinned,
“But that you are sinning right now,
“And I am concerned for your well being.”
When men heard this,
They felt sore vexed
Because it seemed like the Prophet was accusing
Them right to their face.
But it was rather the whole who the prophet accused;
And men stood up in judgment against this prophet
To say, “He is more wicked in his judgments
“Then we are in our murders and thefts!”
The second man was a judge.
He would see of men, “They are righteous,
“And they are, for the whole part, better than this man.”
But, when he saw a man’s sins,
He would say, “This man is incredibly wicked.
“This man, I have seen him be wicked
“I have seen his sins,
“Because I have made a diligent search for them.
“I will not depart from him
“Until I am justified in myself
“That I have found error in him.”
This man, all men loved
Because he had accused the righteous
And had encouraged the wicked to sin
By justifying them, and by making himself justified in their eyes.
Wherever he was, he made sure he was justified in their eyes
And that the truth, even, was abominable in the sights of men
Because he would rather be justified in his position
And not the truth; and once he found sin
He went home and said, “I know I am righteous
“And this other man is a sinner more than I.
“For, the prophets are judgmental,
“And I am humble and give grace to the sinner.”
Which man will stand in judgment?
Who is the hypocrite?
B. K. Neifert 