101 Allusions

1. The Saint and the Punished

The joys he'll enter into, in Zion, are beyond compare. Mansions, cities of gemstones raised the height of the earth to the moon, countrysides, rivers, mountains, valleys, lakes, the trees of the Fruit of Life, lush fertile plains, beautifully woven courts within the City itself likened to the most beautiful State Parks imaginable within its decadent cube; with flowing rivers and waterfalls; even all the animals of the Saints will be there, and all of our precious creatures we loved.  Streets paved with gold, and Pearl gates. Decadent food and drinks, with no hunger or thirst. And he'll be married to Zion, and call the Land Beulah.

If you do not accept Jesus, you'll be imprisoned in a cell of sandstone, licked with flame, and if you were really bad, will be tormented by a demon as your cellmate. You'll descend the tunnel of hell, into the grave, and appear in the caverns of hell, and meet the Satyrs, Dragons, Imps and Cockatrices, and they'll take you to your abode, where you will rot with worms in your wounds, being wounded, and have no thought, no wisdom, no activity, and have all your love stolen from you. You'll feel like a rolled up ball, being tossed around, and never at rest. And your only peace will be that you are where you ought.

2. The Music

The wise hate the wailing of the harp;
They hate the guttural chords,
And howling melodies.

In the society's decadence, 
The music turns to emotive phrase,
And guttural noise;
When at its peak,
The music was peace.

So also, does the harp and lyre
Fill every decadent room,
Every ear is held to the shell
So they can listen to the sea
Of melodies.
At their labor, art permeates every corridor.
The ubiquitous noise omnipresent
So that nowhere can you ever hear again
The pleasant noise of people's voices
In their bubbly hubbub.

Rather, all there is is the music
In its guttural noises, 
And strong, emotive sounds;
Filling all who hear it with stirring melancholy.
Or, with lusty anger and hot sex.
And everywhere it is...
You cannot escape it.

I had thought I lost this poem,
But providence desired it to be sung once more.

3. Jesus' Tunic

Do you remember Joseph?
His coat of many colors?
Made for him by Rachel,
His mother?

Jesus had a tunic
Made without a single seam
Woven from top to bottom,
By Mary.

I recall, that it was His 
Most prized possession;
A tunic. Which, having coats
Myself, I

Know the pride of a warm, well crafted coat,
How it keeps warm in the 
Bitterest of colds, if a tunic also lie
Underneath.

There is a pride to what keeps warm
Which Jesus referred to his Tunic
An awful lot. Being His most prized possession.
Love was stitched

Into this innocent thing; it was the source
Of many of His most difficult sayings,
Where we say, "That's not true,"
Lo, it is.

And that same thing was stolen from Him
On the day of His death, His only comfort;
The thing which was worn, made by His mother,
And He died

As was prophesied, with the garment
Cast lots over by the Centurion who killed Him.
Woe to that man's theft, for how can it be forgiven?
Yet it can.

4. Ancient Revelry

The tares, from their infancy,
Are sown into black soils,
And there they grow with 
Instruments of anarchy.
They stab, they fight,
They poison, they kill,
With the dagger, with fist,
With chalice, with sword;
Every object in their home is cursed.
They fly upon their broomsticks,
They dance nude and enter one another;
They only allow the poets who are naughty
To be spoken in their ancient Golden Era.
And to them, it is joy, the hellish stress,
For they remember their Garden of Earthly Delight.
And they wish to once more bring this age
To fruition, now that Christianity had abated that hell.
Do not acquiesce. Fight with words, and slay the dragon
With the breath of our peaceful prosperities.

5. Vile

Vile things are in every culture.
Vile things are in every time.
Today, it is mutilation of children.
Yesterday, it was chattel slavery.
Tomorrow, who knows?

The obdurate child gets taken from his home.
Stiff necked, and unapologetic, he'd rather
Be placed in foster care, to avoid his parents.
They don't want him to be permanently changed.

The men and women, walking in their rows
Of chains, shackled together, blood dripping down their backs,
A whip cracking, and a husband and wife torn apart
With the screaming infant between their arms.

What gross thing will tomorrow bring?
What invasive disease of the mind will it infect us with?
What horrible thing, will normal and sane individuals
Believe is right, and the rest of us murmur in half toleration? 
The fact of the first thirty years of my life
Was that we had finally gotten it right,
And didn't have any of this. What a shame things went so awry.

6. The Trial

Trump is on trial.
He reads "Before the Law"
He doesn't understand it
But I do.

One door, made for him,
One law, made for him,
One gatekeeper---
Just like all of us it seems,
It will be one day,
A law made for each man
And a sentence just as absurd.
And one man piously sits,
Unquestioning, for it is the matter
Of the State that this solitary law
Be followed, and so with every other man
His own solitary Law
With no rhyme or reason
Than the very fact that it is.

7. She Couldn't Save Me

In a dream, or a vision,
I was cleaning up my life.
My mother, my dear mother,
Was apathetic in her strife.
She would not pick up a broom,
She would not make haste.
So, I left upon my dream
For I could not tell if I, she hates.

Then, upon my bed, I saw a youth who was from my past.
I lay upon my bed, with my Pound Puppy at my breast.
And there was she, for whom I loved,
And my worst fear was seen
A nightmare had succumbed me
And I learned she was a fiend.

Then, at last, we were careening out of control.
I had no lover, I had no friend, so "Amarisa" I told
Shouting it, shouting it, "Amarisa" I did.
The truck crashed, and it killed all my friends.
Then I was ghost, hovering above the scene I dread,
I had not raised, I had not fell, but I knew I was surly dead.

Then, I woke in an asylum for the insane.
I thought I was on a movie set,
I found it all very strange.
I ran for the door, warning all of my insight.
A nurse had tackled me, and then "Jesus" I had cried.
I crawled upon the floor, I inched my very way
Every painful movement, I cried "Jesus" all the way.

At the last, I came to the end, it was a mall with open door;
A stadium was filling with children, who saw me in my state so poor.
Yet, at the end, I reached up for that door,
A voice said, "Brandon, open," and I opened up the door.
At that moment I woke from the horrid vision my mind aroused,
And I renounced that idol "Amarisa", and wrote this verse profound.
Only one name under heaven, I found tonight is true.
It is the LORD Jesus, and I come to caution you.
If by my writing you feel blessed, it is because it's all a song
Made for that one and only savior, not for Amarisa wrong.
Yet, do not worship---it is a tricky verse---
That Daughter of Zion, of which I'm well rehearsed.
It is just a fancy, a strange and idol thought...
Yet it shall remain, for Jesus I have taught.

There is only one name, that saves a man or child,
There is only one name, that can save murderer or pedophile,
Or rapist, or theif, or blasphemer or Jew,
Or Gentile, or Greek, and not a number very few....
It is that man named Jesus, who died upon a cross.
Let no accursèd cult spring from me, for now I know the cost.
I proclaim one Name, that is Jesus Christ my God...
Any other name proclaimed, leads to an awful loss.

8. Jorgia Erin Amaris O'Conner

I fell in love with you.
You became my obsession.
My Beatrice. My Amélie.
You became my idol. Yes, you.
In your blue dress, I saw you
With such godly joy. Like being
In the presence of God.
I must confess it was very strange.
But, I break that yoke for another.
A lighter yoke, that of my Friend.
For calling out to you at night,
It never once saved me. But Christ did.
You are a phantom, who I don't know.
But, I do still believe I will be married to Zion
In the eternal abode I shall one day inhabit.
I do say, if in life I am alone, it is the one thing which could make it worthwhile.

9. Why P Cannot Always Equal NP

It's the proverbial Squaring of the Circle.
The limits of Coefficients in a system,
Which would create NP, cannot always
Be described by P, due to the limitations on geometry.

Every system of equation is defined by a shape.
And simply put, there are limits to every shape
Which makes it impossible to conform some shapes into other shapes.
I think anyway.

In fact, through further rumination,
If P could always equal NP, 
It would break down the very notion of equalities.
P equaling NP 
Would be the same as saying
 πr^2=l*w.
Fundamentally, the axioms of one shape,
Cannot translate to another.
If they could, there'd be no use for mathematics.

In fact, I'd further say,
That if P equaled NP,
One would have a universal equation
And System for solving all axioms of Geometry.
Which, fundamentally, cannot be true.
As Pi is no more described in a square
As Length and Width  are described by a radius.
The shapes have different axioms
By which they must follow,
Which require new calculations on their part
To describe each geometric figure.
So with, any Nondeterministic Polynomial
Cannot always be equated into a Polynomial.
As each Nondeterministic Polynomial
Will be defined by its unique shape and dimensions.
Simply, it cannot be so.

Therefore, Some NP cannot be equal to P.

10. I Am By No Means a Mathematician

I am by no means a mathematician.
However, when I come to P = NP---
Dazzled by the complexity of the equations---
I look at each equation like a shape.
As if each equation represented a simple shape;
Or, even a very complex shape.

In my limited exploration of geometry,
I know a few very basic things.
One cannot take the shape of a Right Triangle,
And use the Pythagorean T heorem
To explain an Isosceles. 

And seeing that NP and P 
Can be reduced to this principle,
At its most basic level,
The most fundamental thing to learn
From this system, is that we CANNOT
Generalize a rule for all shapes.
We cannot, for instance, 
Call an equation a polynomial
If it has three dimensions, for example.
If there is a cubed variable,
The equation no longer is a Polynomial.

I think people approach the problem
From the angle of where I approached
Pythagorean Theorem.
It seems intuitive,
To think the proof lies
In the hypotenuse being like a crossed section
Of a quadrilateral. 
But, that is not why it solves.
It seems possible...
Even very likely,
To where you'll be duped into thinking it.
But, upon keen observations,
And studying the equations and dimensions,
You find it cannot be so
As it would break down equalities and the laws of algebra.

So, also, I think NP equaling P
Would be the same notion,
Of it seeming intuitive,
That a solution can be made.
But, generally, what's intuitive can be deceptive,
And what's more, you cannot define
The Pythagorean Theorem for a Circle,
Any more than Pi would apply
To a Square.
Sure, one can make equal anything,
But by means of deduction,
There is no way outside of empirical observation
To determine a shape, and how the laws
Of objective space apply to it.
Adding the dimension of time
Further complicates this, and makes even more complex shapes,
Which I believe, its geometry, must be studied independently 
For each individual problem.
Much like the philosophers of auld would study shapes
To determine axioms and principles.

Thereby, one must study the shapes
And derive new axioms for each individual shape.
And possibly, that will be the occupation of many brilliant minds come the future, what will.

11. God Defines Me

He's written my story from start to finish. 
My name is"Broom Tree on a Hill Crown Newpeace";
With my brillo head.
I decided to be a writer from the start,
So progressed into Poesy.
Southey and Coleridge wished to come to my reigion
---the Susquehanna valley---
in order to create a "Pantocracy", 
I write in a style similar to them
And also began writing with utopian visions. 
Not only that, Longfellow---America's finest poet---
Had married a woman named "Mary Storer Potter", 
And my best friend has a same last name.
So, there's definitely evidence of God working in my life, 
Particularly, to lead me into my profession, and also to my work. 
None of that could have been coincidental.

12. The Class Machine

No cleric can surpass the king
No, not even in democracy.
The fiefdom is set, as the cook
Makes Metalcore, and lives 
His worst life now.

Was not da Vinci a clerk?
Say we had more freedom then
Than we do now?

The modern Feudalism is set,
As the Wokies march in order,
Ushering in Communism.
That new generation rises,
One with the royal cavalcades
And the flying chariots...
The peoples worship them as gods.

Science is magic
And no man,
Whose own grandfather
Used to dig a hole in the ground
Can rise to the ranks of Poet Laureate;
No, not in this day.

The Laurel sings her rage,
That Boomerang can kill her
The minute she fires her Pineapple;
Though she wants to fight for her freedom,
Yet the mass graves shall be the cost.
Republicans in their rows,
Mowed down by machines and not men;
Waging their wars with Bow and Knife.

Yes, you crowned emperor,
This is a new generation...
One where you rise above all
In glutted fest, and say "I AM".
Crown the Empire,
The ashes of all I love are destroyed,
For to fight is futile.

So, let me die if I must.
And my Blood shall kindle the flame
Like Polycarp, and in Peace
Freedom shall persuade and win.

13.  Innocence

A squid tentacle constricts
A boat, moored on a canvas
Over a hundred years ago.

The decadent painter
Paints over the Baronry's 
Prized collection.

Is this not like the wealth
Of many generations, wasted
By the slogans of communism?

Is this not like the fool,
Whom, finding that Gospel Pearl,
Throws it back into the sea?

For once, the wealth was spread,
And the Pearl need not be hid
From the salacious Trusts;
.
It was there for the common man to shuck.
Yet he swallowed up the pearl,
And kept its shell, by entertaining his audience

With his vandalism.

The communist is like this man,
In that she paints over the canvas of
Civilization with her tentacles;

She covers wealth with her idle decadence.
She knows not Capitalism lifted the world
Out of poverty, and gave the common lay, even,

Priceless art. No... She paints over it
With her squid tentacles,
And spoils generations' worth of wealth.

14. Evolution of Thought 4/13/23

AI, is it smart? No... the mathematician proves it.
Cubed Rooted Negatives are impossible. 
But Quartic and Eighthic rooted negatives are not.
The fool says AI can be intelligent, because he believes
It already is---though, it is merely mimicry. 
Not creativity. It repeats the formulae of essays
Upon essays, and only knows how to simplify them;
It doesn't understand nuance.
 P cannot equal NP all the time---
Some NP cannot equal P---yet, it is not in my poem.
Someone is editing my work, without my knowledge.
I swear an oath, but it is not so. It is only my faulty memory.
I said, "Not Always" but not "Some".
Jordan Peterson wants to create a better world with Religion's Law,
But such a world would be unmerciful,
Save God reign, and judge, and preside over our hearts and minds.
Law without Grace is Hell.
I walk through the State Park,
The tree with an ear has a microphone,
So I believe, and the Bathroom too,
And the tree that looks like a boob.
It opens up to an underground base,
And in the lake, when drained,
They prepared for World War III,
And the rockets would ascend out of the waters.
I would wave my hand, and with faith it would all vanish,
And I would be left unmolested.
The Carpenter ant, so 
Giously walks across my path
Bold, and happy, with the little samara shivering in her mandible.
I wonder if God's eyes are not on such little things.
The plane with the red tailfin flies by, ever so silently,
So I wonder if it is a chariot from Jotunheim,
And the funny camera by the roadside reads my thoughts.
The preacher preaches a sermon on the most horrific child abuse;
She screams, "Where was God when my uncle had done so!"
Where was God when my best friends abandoned me
And showed no inkling of mercy toward my youthful offense?
Or when my peers bullied me? Or when my mother divorced my dad?
Or when all the mean and nasty things were said?
Yet not one hair on my head was ever harmed---
Where was God when my dad received cancer
From the shame and disappointment of his beloved son?
Yet God's providence has always protected me.
I know not why, but possibly because He knows I will never lose my faith.
A semi-circle also can become like a chord in Intersecting Chords Theorem.
Ah, Oh Grecia and Persia, you fight your twenty-five hundred year long war;
Still raging even to this day, and may be a cataclysmic end,
Northern and Southern Kingdoms; how Israel tossels between them.
For a very short time, did Rome Suzerain over Persia; possess the world.
Zoroastrianism morphed into Islam, yet the Northern and Southern 
Kings control the world, like a Yin and Yang ensign;
Though do not be fooled, neither are good, both are evil.

15. The Conflict of Creation

I will never mystify you with how I create.
Call it an inner voice, call it a conscience,
Call it the voice of God...
But, I don't seek to persuade you that it's anymore than
Genius, like such which causes the grapes to grow
Or the performance to be good,
Or the wine to accent meat with its berry.
I will never use mystic words
Or try to dupe you into believing this comes from me.
It comes from practice---
Not some bold power of self will.
Just practice, and a little help from God.

16. The Olive, The Fig, The Vine and the Bramble

Brother and Sister of the True vine,
That Olive and Fig---
The Olive with his fatness,
The Fig with her sweetness;
Gideon and Deborah,
Elijah and Mary Magdalene;
What distinguishes thou?
When offered a crown, ye cast it;
Ye forsake the world, and worldly authority.
Oh, the Vine, when pierced---
You True Vine, you who merry the hearts of God and Man,
You too had been lifted up,
And would not take Your Kingdom with the Twelve Legions of Angels;
Not before you were lifted up.
Yet, the Bramble with his Shadow
Says, "Give me authority,
"And I shall guide ye well!"
And he is a fire which burns like hell's black flame.

17. Fools and Philosophers

I look at all the philosophers handed down through history,
And I wonder, "How simple it would be, if their teacher were Christ alone?"
Then, I suppose, there would not be any confusion about the most basic truths.

18. Kaleidodream

Do you not know? The robot does not dream?
Do you not know, that it plagiarizes you, and yes me?
The swirling subconsciousness of a hundred million artists
Get copied and pasted over a sentence or line of text.
The author of that text believes it is the magic of mind---
He believes it is intellect, and creativity of the machine.
No... it is the intellect and creativity of millions of artists
Which the AI picks and chooses, and warps
Around a few platitudes of thought.
And the author of such thought says, "I can not do better."
Yet, I, being an artist, see only the wish fulfillment
Of having one's immediate, and simplistic fancy
Shown as a flashy, surrealist portrait.

No, my loves, the true artist is you who wrote the prompt.
For that subconscious thought then gets woven
By the machine, to create what is pretty,
But not sublime.

19. Otaku

Am I just an obsessed hobbyist?
Spending hours a day,
Surfing for inspiration...
Is it only money that makes a career?

Music,
Art,
Science,
Literature,
Poetry,
History,
Psychology,
Sociology,
Maths,
Theology,
Philosophy,

For what?

Would I have been better off
Learning how to play a video game real well?
To know nothing about our world?
Twiddle my thumbs,
And I could have made a fortune.
I could have been a good poker player,
Or a bad chess player,
Or a good COD player,
Or I  could play pinochle,
Or be a professional Magic The Gathering Player,
Or I could play Fortnite,
Or I could have made a YouTube channel
Where I got really good at Mario or Rome Total War,
Or playing Minecraft all day
And make my fortune?
To commentate on Comic Book fads
And react to some stranger's fifteen minutes of fame
Or classic rock songs I've heard a million times
And speculate on the latest celebrity gossip?
I could have beat myself,
Made a fool out of myself,
Like a Jackass
And give my exorbitant riches to the poor.

No, instead I chose to grow up.
And am punished for it,
By not being allowed to.

All my target audiences are trapped in eternal youth
Like I am the sole man left on Earth.

20. How to Read a Poem

Read once.
Read twice.
Then labor over every line.
Look at every comma, 
And learn every word in time.
Find every allusion,
Find every hidden word---
Read over a lifetime,
And you shall know that verse.

21. The Anti-Nietzsche Aphorism

The highest form in this life, 
Succumbs to work which sustains us, 
A true love,
The quest for knowledge.
And contentment with this lot.
Then, we die and reap whatever we have sown.

22. Historicity of Genesis; Flood, Nimrod and Battle of Siddom

Mid-24th Century Anomaly, 
It collapses all civilizations;
Almost like a global flood? Then
The Earth divides during the life of Peleg, and then
Sargon that Nimrod, built His empire, 
And three hundred years later, would,
Ride, Abraham! and pursue those Elamite foes.
Make haste to avenge Ur, to impose that Amorite King
Melchizedek, king of Salem, to instill Babylonian rule.

23. Two Black Maidens

Two black maidens set their minds to proof...
They do their math, and prove.
Calculus, they use, to prove Pythagorean Theorem,
Yet Calculus is proven so much, so
That Pythagorean Theorem is proven too!

It is a biconditional,
Two Tautologies that necessitate.
The very crux of Equalities,
And the very crux of all mathematics and logic.
It is how, oh my souls,
That science knows.

24. Hell's Party

Hell's Party, for those who wish to go,
Will be unbridled, lawless rage.
It will be eternal sin, and damnation.
Satan dupes you into believing it will be fun,
Because sin was fun.
The little innocent bear pong game,
The one night stand,
The practical jokes...

They turn into MK Ultra  drugs,
Rape and forced relationships with hideous monsters,
And torture chambers.

The party guests arrive,
And Satan says, "No Rules Yeah!"
And the party guests cry out for glory,
And then the suffering begins.
No rules, no regulations, all murder, theft and adultery allowed.
And we soon see what hell actually is.
It is sin unbridled by God's Law.

25. Jehovahjirah

The LORD will be seen;
And like the ram provided
To Abraham, when seen,
The LORD had been an ox, aleph, A
Sacrificed for the covenant, tav., t
The Seed of the woman
Bit in His Ankle by the Serpent,
Crushed the serpent's head.
The seed and sprout of Jesse
Grew, and all was placed under His domain.
For, the curse brought great suffering
Into the world---for with sin there is the curse
Of suffering, for all sin causes suffering.
And by the crucifixion of our LORD
All our sin was pierced into Him,
Making us, like He, whom God sees.
Therefore, we are the little Christs,
Whom the world sees as if we were He---
And the world hates us, mocks us,
Scorns us. Why? Because it is the cause
Of all our suffering, and we tell it so.
Yet that suffering is nailed into Jesus
At the cross, so we one day see God face to face.

26. The Gospels as Witness

Mathew, if first written in Aramaic,
Papias says John Son of Thunder
Said Matthew was written by Matthew in Hebrew,
Does this not prove Matthew was written by
Matthew? Papias XX says John the Elder is
John Son of Thunder, and that John dictated his Gospel to Papias.
Luke is also considered a premier Historian.
Evidence that Demands a Verdict, 86.
And Mark is written by memory,
On the testimony of Peter.
And would Q not most likely be the man Jesus Himself?

27. The Cycle

The Jolly Mother Idol, imbued in a civilization
Ancient, and now gone... their Neolithic
Art of cattle and human skulls,
Which were made into displays
And arm rests,---their paintings of the hunt
Scribed throughout the world on cave walls;
Their houses of clay, with roof streets
And well kept, with ovens and warm spaces.
It was destroyed by, yes, the Flood.

Then arose the Semitic Pantheon
Of Baal-El, Hubaal, and Asherah.
And they arose, to their gross heights.
They built upon their civilization,
Ancient and ubiquitous---
The infant bodies stored in clay pots
To perform their gross sciences---
But then Israel wiped them out,
And finally Rome when it had conquered Carthage.

And then Rome had grown, and grew to great stature.
It grew, it grew, it grew, and the Greek Pantheon
Ruled the world. And soon it brought chaos
By its lusty and rapturous gods,
And like Hyenas they wafted from Male to Female
And from Female back to Male;
And what chaos it did bring!
Until the Christians converted Constantine
And with Peace, did Christianity cover the world.

And as a last age, will not the wicked raise the idol once again
Gaia, mother Earth, and the Titans overthrown
By the new Pantheon, Greece overtaken by War
And its pantheon of comfort, prosperity and food and drink.
And then, at last, the creature raises from the depths
And causes all men to worship it;
Worship the Earth, so that the gods and goddesses
Can fly upon their chariots, and live by their arcane magic.
And the poor upon the earth shall lament, and take up this cry
Against the wicked generation, they shall Cry for Christ
And His age, for at least then there was peace;
America, remember Who ordered thy prosperity.

28. A Priori

The entire world understands itself
Through practice of vacuous equations---
That is why no one can tell what is true.

No math can work, without being applied.

No math can be proven, unless by real
Phenomena, and its prediction of
Their physics. We know much metaphysics
As is our primary education,
But confuse all a priori logic,
Which substitutes whim and desire for
What is actually in the real world.

So men and women are like hyenas
And not like men or women; yet even 
There, we find the modern fashion exposed.

29. 1,666

My last post was 1,666.
Almost like the divine providence speaks loud and bold.

30. Ye Old Stoics

An old Stoic once told a man
Who lost everything he owned
To a raging inferno
That it was not his to begin with.
That everything was borrowed.
The wise sage said, "You do not deserve what you want."

If you wish to live in a world like that,
Where law is who can rip the meat
From the lioness' mouth;
Yet, God is abundant in promises.
Though, in my suffering I do not blame Him,
I blame ye.

Why is it, that I answer and do so much work
And get unrecognized for it?
While my ideas are stolen, and my seed
Blows about the wind?
Yes, there is a man who doesn't labor for wisdom;
Ought that man be?

The perfect philosopher might be among you
But no one will listen to him.
They pick and peck like vultures
Taking his meat from off his bones,
Leaving him shivering cold amidst the carnage.
And this is how it ought to be?
Yes? Because the old Stoic glibly consoles
The man who is suffering by telling him
That his suffering is for naught?
That he did not deserve the things which he lost?

Certainly, I don't deserve it...
I don't intend to make that case,
But work needs to be paid for.
And my work is not being paid.
So, there is some injustice happening
Where I reveal secrets
And yet my own vineyard is spoiled

Ye's fantasies for me is to be like a child
As long as I live, and to grow old and gray
Still yoked to the chain of his condescension.
Yet, such is the situation of a true prophet,
And with that badge of honor,
I am at rest.

31. Vain Mystery

There shall be no temple found at Egypt,
Thou, like Gomorrah.

The sacrifice shall be made 
On Mount Zion,
And there, in our Eternal Abode.

The Nicolaitan King
Shall invade Zion's Walls
To no avail, though the covering Cherub sit
In the Temple, like Christ::---
The Abomination.

32. Fight o Samaria

Freedom writhes this day---
Baal is worshipped by the rich
And Baphomet by the poor.
Slaughter, o Samaria
The Canaanite from within you.
Purge their very babes from you.
Dash their infants to pieces.
Destroy, thresh, show no mercy
To the heathen gods---rip down their altars;
Break their altars, and destroy their heritage.
Cause their shame to be forgotten in the lands,
O Israel. Now is not a time for peace,
But for the sword. Thresh from among you
And rip down the faithless, with their horns.

The Assyrian navies, sleek ships from Tarshish,
They sail into thy seas, o Samaria, off thy coasts.
Who shall bewail the children of the god Moloch?
Shall we now do to their infants,
What he has seen fit to do to ours?
They dance, with the horns of devils upon their heads,
And they speak their blasphemes and their curses.
"The Prophet Prophesies!"
So says the people, yet it is another vain vision.
How many prophecies shall they utter in error?
Shall the wicked go unpunished?
Who, thou Samaria, is it who bowed the nape
To Moloch? Is it not even you?
Woe! Iniquity upon Iniquity!
Samaria, you ought have foughten
But instead you made alliances with your own Accusers!
You have sacrificed to the Pagan Bull
And you have burned incense to the Lilith!
Now, shall you be destroyed
And your babes ripped from you.
Where your judgment would have proceeded
As light, it is now darkness, for you,
O Samaria, ought have foughten,
But instead you have made alliance with Sin.
Yet, the Prophets shall be among you,
And wag the tongue, as you lick like an adder
With poison. We shall escape, we men of Judah.
Selah.

Thou Land of Whirring Wings,
Who brought ensigns by papyrus vessels,
Thou cleaved by the rivers,
O, Moab, hide the Children of Israel---
For if they cleave to you, and seek your good,
They shall not be slain.
Do not enter into the war
My Children, but let the nations war among themselves.
For judgment proceed'th from the most high
For their iniquity, and the LORD has lain this trap.
They shall be greatly ashamed, those who accused Judah,
And they shall no more look upon their gods,
And say, "The LORD see'th not."
Your hands shall be bound,
And thy mouths stopped, and every ear shall tingle
At what the LORD has planned for you,
Who made war with your brother in the day his iniquity was found out.
Samaria, she is forsaken, do not take up a lament.

33. The Fascist Calling the Fascist Brown

Tim Snyder, for all your good you did
Sounding the alarm about Trump,
You missed the very cruel double edge.

Canada is attacking Free Speech with Internet Censorship,
Canada is also destroying people's livelihoods for simply refusing to say made up pronouns,
The fact that there even are over 2 genders, and that's being taught to kids as young as eight, (Symbols of the Party)
The United Nations is attempting to minimize and even normalize Statutory Rape,
So is California,
PBS is advocating Gender Affirming Health Care---the castration and masectomation of Youths--- (Propaganda)
England is fining and putting people in jail for saying, "Homosexuality is a Sin"
The FBI is being used to spy and terrorize American Citizens who vote Republican, (Militarized Police and Paramilitarization)
Mail In Ballots are being used to illegally cast votes, and therefore win elections for Democrats, (Unfair Elections)
Critical Race Theorists are trying to whitewash American History and culture,
Woke Politics are infesting Hollywood, and not allowing any art to be made,
As Trans Terrorists maliciously censor voices like JK Rowling with Death Threats and Bomb Threats; they do so with impunity,
As PBS draws sympathy to a Mass Shooter who killed Children, just because he is trans,
As words like "Ugly" and "Fat" get removed from Roald Dahl's Works, and Loony Tunes and Dr. Seuss get banned, (Censorship and Book Burning)
As people still wear masks from a manufactured pandemic that really wasn't as bad as people made it (Symbols of the Party)
As people try to amend the law, such as Double Jeopardy, there is a woman calling for a reopening of a case involving a man and woman convicted in relation to a gang murder---
As the Left and hordes of Lawyers scathe Alex Jones and make him into a show trial, which cost him more money than was ever reasonable to pay,
As a person who made a little firing pin 3d Printing model was given an over 100 year sentence,
And what was the Reichstag? January 6th, where the only person who died was one solitary protestor,
And while CNN and MSNBC cheer on rioters and looters in the name of Equity, Inclusivity and Diversity,
As School Libraries carry pornography and sexually explicit materials, and teachers begin to move boundaries in the classroom pertaining to sex
As college students monopolize campuses, and create "Safe Spaces" where they prohibit freedom of speech, while rioting and protesting and forcibly removing Conservative speakers from their campuses....

Where, for all your journalistic integrity,
Did you attack this? Which was just as malicious and evil.
That is why I have to be the voice of reason.
You call Trump a fascist. Well, who else is also fascist?
Perhaps the advocates of all of these things, as well.
If you fact check these things, they say it is not so, yet the words out of the very Pigs' mouths betray them.

Though the Right is trying to normalize Indentured Servitude,
And is paying out toxic loans as Black Rock and China buy up all of our American Companies,
As they ban John Green from schools,
As they profilitize Religious Stodginess and want to create a Theonomy,
And are trying to make the Robber Barons Baronry again,
Though these sins are enough, I'm sure there's more I'm unaware of.

Both sides are trying to make speech impossible, through perpetual offense,
Having friends and relatives thrown out of homes for simple disagreements,
Or thrown out of businesses for their political views;
Which is forbidden under the Enumeration of the 9th Amendment.
No man, can contractually sign away their rights,
Either verbally, written or in any wise in any agreement.
And both are Nazi Anti-Semites in my book, with two brands of kool aid.

I stand on no side except God's; it's all despicable. That's why I'm the only honest voice.

34. Make a New Song

Ariel, named for her red hair,
Watches Ariel, a gorgeous Black Woman.
A mermaid expert tells us,
"Ariel is black, because Mermaids come from Africa."
Though, the story comes from Hans Christian Andersen,
A Dane.

Ought the Woman King be black?
I say she ought be, as the story means nothing
Without that character being black.
There is no metaphor without the racial imagery.
To scrub it for future generations,
None will know what history came to pass.
It will erase where we came from.

So also, you must not swap out races of characters.

Erin is the idealized of my perfect form of Beauty.
Theresa is based off of a woman I adored.
To remove Erin's Irish feature
And Theresa's Guyanese feature
Is to ignore who I crafted them to be
They would not be who they ought to be.
It would be a disservice
To change who they are.

Make new. 
Make a new song.

35. The Amalekite's Lie

Saul fell upon his 
Sword, committing Suicide;
Being David's foe,
The Amalekite lied, who
Said that Saul leaned on his Spear.

For, does not the one
Who slays the King's enemy
Get a reward, no?

36. The Tortoise and the Hare 2023

The world was ran by hares,
Whom made everyone give them lettuce,
Otherwise the Hares would tie their feet
Together, with their superior speed,
And they'd only unbound the other animals
When they had sufficient lettuce to feed them with.

Thus, there came an angry tortoise
Remembering the Justice of the Olden Days
When his ancestor had beaten the hare
In a foot race.
So, again, he challenged the Hare
To a foot race.
The hare accepted,
And then proceeded to make a few conditions.

"First, Herr Tortoise, you must bind your legs.
"And second, you must noose your neck,
"And third, you must place a heavy rock over your shell.
"And if you give me lettuce, I will unbind you for a short time
"Until I contract that your allotted time is up, and then I will bind you again."
The tortoise refused,
And said, "No, Herr Hare, I will not acquiesce to these terms."
And the Hare said, "Then you shall not race,
"And I will bind you anyway."

The hares then were pleased they made it so.

I am that Tortoise.

37. Metaphors of Current Affaires

I am a bard, witnessing the feud of great empires.
Let me tell of the political strife happening now.
There is Queen Maeve and David, allied together to bring
The Anarchy to the shores of the Greater Northern Realm.
There is Stephen, whom no one loves, bringing tyranny here
By challenging the ancient bounds of free speech, by storming
Through like the Bull in a China Closet: he destroys much.
There are the Northern and Southern Kings, storming each other's
Lands, taking cities, and warring their ancient rivalry;
The Domains of Grecia and Persia are at their long
Millennias' war, ruling worlds like a taijitu .
And here is this bard, trying to win back his realm's freedom.

38. Quadratic Equations

A difficult mystery...
Every Polynomial represents
A shape---
Thus, the Quadratic Formula
Breaks down those shapes into two dimensions.
Hence, why it gives a length and width
For its answer---
Also, how Cubic equations
Give, the added dimension of breadth.

Thus, by reducing the equation down to one dimension,
One can figure what they need in that one dimensional space.

This is also why P cannot always equal NP
As NP can often work in multiplicities of more dimensions.

39. Wonderland

Say something true, you are sure to offend...
The only truths to lend, are truths of a geometric kind.
The culture speaks in fallacious ways,
Every belief is a formal fallacy.
The culture is warped around this nonsense,
Yet, there is the certainty of the Laws of Proofs
Geometric, and Mathematics, and all Physical constructs.
Yet, speak a word politically, that might be true,
You have offended like Alice had offended,
And the Queen says, "Off with her head."
Doth our King now pardon us?

40. 63%

63% are Christian?
60% of those Christians say Christ isn't the only way.
Another 3 percent of them are Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons.
About 50% of those Christians say Homosexuality isn't a sin.
1.6 Million of those Christians are Hebrew Israelites. (A Heretical Sect)
Several Hundred Thousand are Hebrew Roots.
I'll estimate that another million or so have Heretical beliefs about the Trinity, and don't follow any Systematic Theology.

Which, doing the math, most Americans who profess to be Christian
Simply aren't.
And who are the persecuted in America?
That 3% of Christians who hold to Christ's true teachings and theology.

41. Your Bouquet

The buttercups and pansies 
Are grown old; their lives are short.
The daisies are pink and white:
The Mayapples are matured---

The spring is at its agéd peak.
It wanes into summer's prime;---
do know, the roses soon bloom
And scent the forest; the Honey-
Suckle too. The most beautiful
Is soon to come.

Happy Mother's Day.

Love,
	Brandon

42. Signs and Wonders

Though the Prophetess paints me and my love
Old, and filled with many days;
Though the prophet, in the age of Napoleon,
Prophesies me and my Phalanx of verse;
Though providence moves me,
And I am washed from head to toe by providence,
It moves by the string of faith;
Though my name is destined, and written
Strong, invoking Elijah, and a Crown Prince of Poetry;
Though the Lake Poets would try to build a pantocracy in my hometown,
And another poet married a woman whose name was that rare name of a friend's;
I look at myself, and like the old stoic say,
"I don't deserve what I want."

Do you now understand why I lack the faith to claim these?
The rag upon my head is like a filthy menstruous cloth;
Though it bend through the air to fulfill my predictions like a miraculous lot,
It is my deeds---my deeds---which prevent me from obtaining what I want.
We do not receive God's blessing because we believe we deserve it.
But, rather, He gives for no reason, other than His own love for me.

43. Thou Wounded Robin

Thou wounded Robbin---
I would pick you up
And splint your broken leg.
But, I know not how.

I would call for thee
To those who could,
And tell them, "Splint its leg."
But, they would not.

So, I leave you in the wilds,
For I wish not to frighten you,
Or cause you torment,
Hoping some Good Samaritan can do
What I cannot.

For, I have once called upon
The Authorities to bind the wounds
Of a fawn, and they shot it.
I cannot bind its wounds.
I know not how.

I know not how to heal my country's breach
And I know that by pointing out its breaches,
It has only made those in authority pick at it
All the more.

So, I leave you, for it is the kindest gesture I can.

44. Metamorphosis

Fyodor could not become a vermin,
But I have become a vermin.
I crawl upon the walls,
And see everything from there.
And it is liberating!
But, will I die, and nobody care?

45. Cryptography

One cannot be a truly good person,
Nor be truly humane,
Without having tasted from the bitter fruits of evil.
Unless having been evil,
One cannot then have the compassion
For true good.

46. Vicar d'Orco

O, thou Lucifer,
A Vicar of the world.
When God dispels you,
The people will rejoice.

For, you are given your domain
A short while, so man can know
Why sin is truly sin.
And then, men will repent
And live in peace
But remember the suffering you have caused.

47. The Art of Fascism

Why was the height of art
Made so low?
In frantic screams of ethnic purity
The true artist was made a fool---,
Though, I take my middle brow poetry
And I do it well.

Perhaps it's best that the high brow art
Is decadent, and ugly, and foul---
Why? So it puts into perspective
That art cannot save a nation.

Ovid, Homer, Christ,
Seamunder, Snori, Virgil,
Grimm's Fairytales, Friedrich Nietzsche,
Wagner, all were fodder to stir up the Volk.

I do understand this.
But I am not this.

48. Fibonacci Numbers

Symmetry---
You Fibonacci numbers appear in nature
Because of your symmetry.
You appear because of the soundness of your structures.
Phi---you are Nature's Rectangle;
You are Nature's Symmetry---
You are Nature's sounding board
For the entire structure of the universe.

49. Sophism and Epistemology

How the sophists play at golden
Ends of civilizations. For
The prosperities of those men
Who were their elite forbearers
Did build with Reason's Sun and Rain.
The joyful sun, a Priori...
Sad rains, a Posteriori.
Which, the civilization springs
Like the grass, when both are balanced.
Yet, from both Science or Phenom
Does the sophist never know, faced
With unknowns, void by faith's phantom.
Aught, Science and Phenomena
Cause sweet wisdom's diaspora.  

So remember,

History's witness
And being's ontology
And cause's effect
Are the measures of all good
Philosophy: listen; look.

It is not always about ends and means, but, sometimes, that things are what they are.

50. NP Difficulty

I have been watching proofs---
Oh, their poetry is so serene---
And I realize NP difficulty
Is much like a Geometric Proof.
Rather, to solve them, requires
Not one master equation
But solving the difficult variable
By combining other basic theorems
To further build upon to a right and new solution.

51. The Stock Market Crash

1929
Coolidge, in his booming economy,
Does nothing, as Margin Trading 
Becomes common with the public.

2008
Reagan, in his booming economy,
Does nothing, as Private Equity
Buys the worker out of their rights.

Runaway capitalism
And the rich's stranglehold on our country
Is from three tumors:

401ks
Private Equity
And Margin Trading.

52. New Philosophy

You are Analytic and Continental.
You read my poem, and say,
"The analytic in me thinks it's good.
"The continental thinks it's 'meh'."
You ask me to tell you my inspiration,
Well, it is precisely that both
Continental and Analytic philosophies
Are sophistic.
And a good epistemology
Is rooted in aligning Phenomenon to Noumenon;
Thereby, I propose a different philosophical school.
It is called "New Philosophy"
Though it is indeed the old philosophy.
For, we were closer to the truth during Plato
Than we were during Husserl.
And we were closer to the truth during Aristotle
Than we were during Wittgenstein. 

53. The Classical Head

I'm not much for Picasso---
Yet, my favorite portrait is by Picasso.

It is a woman's head---
The classical head---
Of Olga's, with her Auburn locks
And sumptuous face.
Round, strong jawed,
But thin jawed,
Almost ovular
And not circular...
A strand of hair frames her
In the way of an attractive woman
With her justified sprezzatura. 
Messy, unkept, with a content crease on her lips.
Her eyes are dovey,
And her whole face is drawn
With, I think it is, a couple of threads of pencil.

The artist could, in fact,
Draw a beautiful shape---
The portrait of feminine beauty---
In only three or four masterstrokes of his brush.

How I do hate making poetry like this---
Though, in spirit of Picasso,
I shall make it like this.

I am more of a Raphael---
But like Picasso did,
I can show my proficiency in the era's conventions.

54. Poetry Club

I join Poetry Club---
Not really, but let's pretend---

I walk in, and there's pretentious Jackass
Who all the group fawns over.
His art is mediocre, but they all insist he is god's gift to letters.
I show my writing,
And immediately they pounce all over it.
They criticize everything it's done right---
Like the pretentious brown nosers they are--
And like the game I played today,
Of posting in a category---
There is the true artist,
Me,
Lonely, and blowing in the wind.
I'm late to the game.
I'm early for the game.
I do not time my art
Except for the larger picture.
I do not craft my art to be timely.
Rather, I do my art from the sheer joy of doing it.

Some generation will recognize it,
But hopefully it is my own
So I am not one of those unhappy artists who
Never benefited from the Providential Gift of utterance.

As Solomon says,
"There is such a man who labors for wisdom,
"But lo, it goes to another. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity,
"That which man labors for under the sun."

55. I Cast My Crown

This Poem is about all my haters
Inspired by Crown the Empire's
"Menace"

You call me a "worthless F*ck"
I ask "Is that what you call love?"
And do you love your brother enough?

When you're alone, and wandering,
And I'm in places you'll never see,
We'll ask each other
Why did God make us free?

And when I look at you
I'm going to know it was your attitude
Which as a teenager, I admit I did have,
But as a grown ass adult, I lost it all. Had
I been like you, a hateful little worm,
I still don't say you're evil
But speak saccharine sweet
Which causes me cancer
Though we will never meet
Until that day when the stars all will fall
And the sun snuffed out,
My pity ignited for all...
Where will I be?
My verse is so pure?
It proved God has loved me
And you were so cursed?

I still say, I love you my dear,
And if you'd just listen I'll have you some cheer
That if you simply would practice what you say you do preach
You wouldn't be writing so many songs about me.

56. Fairytale

The shadow you are, creeps from me;
Eternal utterances, and restless sleep.
I dream of you every night,
The magic you spin to make my demons arise.

You tell me to sit at your feet,
And be thy shadow beneath thee.
I walk for three hundred years
Doing good deeds, voiceless,
And I cannot be cheered.
The songs of the elderberry sings so sweet,
But you view me as if a woman
Falling into a bog filled with leech...
For you envision me as the one
Who cast her bread on the ground
To step on it with my new shoes, so proud;
But then do I fall into the hell below
And my only hope to turn into a bird and go home?
Or, am I a lad, sailing to Eden
And when I get there, I'm in eternal heaven
Only to run after the beautiful bride
And lose in one day my eternal paradise?

Fairytales I sing to you
Have not a happy ending---oh so very few...
For I admit I have broken my trust
In my own hands, so how do I love?
If my life were Romance, would I be Romeo?
If my life were a Tragedy, would I be Lear?
If my life were reality, would I be Christian?
If my life were a sitcom, would I be Brandon?

So, give to me at least, my one happy song
And I'll spin a fairytale so pleasant.
For if my life were a fairytale,
Would I survive?
Or would I be the hare who snubbed the hedgehog
And while running my eternal race I die?

I don't know.

57. Thou Swallow

Thou Swallow, you fly within my breadth,
And I ponder,---twice yonder you swoon,---
The curse which shall soon descend upon me.
Yet, thou hast caused my foot to stir
And my ambling to tarry,
So that the carriage which was at my back
Was saved from the other one careening down Front Street.
So, by thy shrill warnings, thou hast caused me to be a blessing
Upon some stranger I nary knew.
For, by spying me, a pedestrian on her port side,
It left just enough time to see the other car
Which travelled at twenty-five knots.
Had I not been there, I know not---
 Perhaps it would have rent her asunder.
I see no other way... but by providence's hand
I walk with blessing, and what would be a curse is turned.

58. Oh Peleg

Oh, you Neolithic Civilization,
With your bone furniture,
Spread across the world,
Worshipping your Venus.
Even in the Americas
Are you found.
Until, you are not.

Then, there comes the divide.
Oh Peleg! What did you witness!

Soon the Clovis civilization springs up
But, what had happened? Where did 
The old World,---the worshippers of the Titans---
Where did they go? Greek Pantheon,
Your war between gods and Titans!
The eldest Pantheon, remnants are remembered.
Slaughter, Grecia, the Semitic gods!
Canaan, Carthage, Moab,
Your gross gods will be destroyed.

59. A Lament For Zion's Prince and Prophetess

Oh, thou Prince? You say, "The meat shall stay in the cauldron."
For, in your heart you figure it is unclean for the people
To be plucked out of Zion, and taken to foreign lands.
For, they shall throw a bag over your head, and dig through your walls
And take you to Babylon, where you shall be killed and dishonored.
For, you believe, "The priest shan't pluck the sacrificial portion
"From the pot, while the sacrifice is being prepared,
"So shall the people of Zion be behind her impenetrable wall."
Ezekiel is saying, it is not so. You shall be taken alive, and killed.
So also the Prophetesses, who do their vain dance,
Trying to catch a soul with a pillow---I still cannot understand it
And shan't be allowed to, for it is pure mischief and sorcery;
No, it is but vanity, and delusion. You hop forth, and try to capture souls
And you prophesy to the LORD's people vain visions to cause them sadness.
They come to you for the truth, and you whisper to them,
"Oh, you are wicked, wicked, a man of trembling!"
But the LORD did not make him sad!
Then, you go to the wicked man, and promise him all prosperity
All freedom, all assurance in his vice, for he struggles with sin
And you slyly smile that he has his demons and they rule over him
Just like yours rule over thou.

60. Judgmental

Of all the things I
Hate in our modern world,
I have to say there's
Good, too. A man, being who
He truly is, is not judged.

61. Silly Dove

Oh, you silly dove.
Your heart is a mind for love
And you amble everywhere
Searching for a heart to share
In your beautiful heart...
Simple things, in that mind dart
To and fro, who shall coo like you
And where to alight and find fruit?
For you are unlike other birds
You silly dove... for first
Upon your mind is true love
As is the innocence of a dove
That first and foremost on her mind
Is love, to be shared with in time.

For it is so with all the righteous
That they primarily search for lucious
Truth, and deep seeded friendship 
And their Turtledove, with courtship
They dance their mating ritual
And finally, they come to mutual
Acquaintanceship
And finally, the most intimate touch of relationship.

Prophetics

62. A Dream

There were laity surrounding a prophet,
But a laywoman wanted to interpret,---she insisted.
The prophet huffed to this laywoman, "But if I am unable,
"I am good for nothing, for I am a prophet."
Then, the laity all mocked, and drew knives to kill the prophet.
But the prophet's Father saw just how wicked the laity were!
So, the prophet leapt from the terrace, to escape his listeners' wrath
And was met there, at the nadir, by a lengthy, blind snake.
The blind snake was proud, and buzzed his knape,
And was exceedingly wicked. The Prophet cried out to God
And he was heard, and was delivered from the snake
Through his foresight of the Snake's awful, wicked plans.
Sure, the prophet had a little pride, but murder was never his intent;
Thus will God judge the Laity who do this to a prophet,
By driving him away from his apportioned lot.
For if you make the prophet sorry for his job in this life, what shall he there gain?

63. Amenhotep

Amenhotep, you 
Fly with your chariots, yon
That Nuweiba beach.
Yet, the walls of water crash
Down upon you, and the Jews
They flee to Sinai.

64. Abusers of Themselves with Men

This word,
Translated as Homosexual
In the Bible,
And called unlawful,
Means a man ejaculating into another man.
That is the graphic, and literal meaning.

65. Psalm 22:16 H3738 Dead Sea Scrolls

Strongs
Is never wrong.

66. Sorcery

Sorcery bends the truth,
To where you cannot recognize a lie.

It is not literal magic---
There is no such thing.
Rather, sorcery is the completion
Of a lie, to where it begins to be muddied with truth.

67. Dad

I stand on the shores of manor blue
Which wash upon the white crests of foam.
The skin of the beach, in its grained
Glory rests, with the discus being thrown
By friends who've never parted.

What better friend than paternal bond
Standing by their son through good and ill?
To summon the courage to provide
For house and hold, and to shield
A man from winters and rains,
From scorching star and the dark
Abyss of night? A good friend
Who loves his sons, especially me.

What I did to deserve it, is naught.
I had taken every ounce of trust
And I have thrown it like the thistle's fir
And scattered it to the wind, 
I have planted seeds
Of tare---yet, you patiently waited
For a garden to spring forth its summer fruit.
And I have. No longer the tare
But my fruit a choice orchard of Nectarine---
And a friend I've had, I shall be thankful.
Hoping one day, to also be a friend like thou art
To me.

Happy Father's Day
Happy Birthday

68. Fibonacci and Pythagoras

Fibonacci, your secrets are serene---
We can spend a lifetime studying you
As the Cat on the Mathologer's shirt
Bends to your hurricane of Phi.

Even Pythagoras, yes...
Bends to your will.
For, take four of your numbers in a square
Lined up in their sequence from the lowest on top
And the highest on the bottom,
Left to right,
And when cross multiplied completely,
Make legs and the hypotenuse of a right triangle;
Yes, one value even must be doubled, but how serene!
Know its inner circle, like a soul
Tangential to the Right Triangle's form.
And what's this?
Do you know the squares made
From the exterior of each line of the triangle?
That's how Pythagorean Theorem works?
So, the radii of exterior circles
Also, by cross multiplication,
Fit by three Euclidean Squares of Pi.

So also, counting by Fibonacci,
While working through Fibonacci
Creates Pythagorean Theorem's roots also;
Even when a number counted
Is not a Fibonacci number.

69. The Confusion of my Verse

I saw the wicked, and their shifting eyes
And what they see when they read my verse.
Their eyes shift, they know not what I say!
For they cannot read my writing and know...
Their eyes are dull, just like their ears to my speech.
I know now, and shall have compassion on them
That they cannot physically read the plain words I speak.
For God blinds them, and shifts their eyes
And causes them to be in distortion.

70. Mimicry and Mimesis

To mimic, is to
Repeat a fat formulae
And copy its fruit.

Mimesis is to
Experience life and tell
It full-faithfully.

AI mimics, but has no mimesis.

71. A Lasting Love

Sit at the gates
Of bliss and smell
Of a woman’s young perfume
Of cedar, and fell
Did you to her strong perfumed
Musk, 
The scent of that woman
And her opinions you love.

Scent and opinions
Are more important than vain;
Beauty we all see
But these shall remain.
For when a woman
Is old, her wrinkles do say
And the folds of fatness shall proclaim:
Why did you chose me
If only for my face?
You knew one day I’d be ugly.”
Thus, choose in a woman what remains.

72. Tears

Tears, how often we shun them.
But, they are proof that we are men.
What beautiful thing it is
When tears well from us;
When we’re filled with tears
For sin, for dishonesty.

There is no better thing then
When we cry for our hurt
For the hurt of others.
Tears are a beautiful thing.

The mellow calm that comes with sadness;
The joy that swells from the heart.
Tears fill the soul with joy
Swelling in us.
When we shun
The sadness, we become truly sad.

Let the tears flow
My child.
Let the joys come.
Tears were invented for joy
So we could show ourselves
Visibly broken by a world of sin.

73. The Legend of the Juniper

The Juniper was a little baby
Born to an Ice Princess.

Upon her breast
He drank his milk
Trusting in the LORD.
The princess spoke over him,
“Let the baby grow tall,
“Fight and conquer the kings
“And let Milk and Honey be his strength.”

So, the Juniper gave suck
But was stolen from her breast
As an infant.
He was given to a poor family
Whose infant suffocated
And was blue;
The Ice Princess
A Jewess,
With her husband Jacob Change
Blessed the baby boy
For the children of the Jews
Were hunted and killed.

The Juniper’s family had the similitude of kings;---
So when the baby waxed to about five years old
Ziddonians came to he.
They took him to another world
Showing him the masterpiece he would weave
For the Kings. They said to him, “You will sin
“So we have brought you into bondage to these kings.”
The child had not sinned---
A woman he trusted stole he from his family
Bringing him before the kings
Where he spoke to the young Prince of Ziddon.
Then, one of the Princes of Tyre
Son to the Tongue of the Egyptian Sea
Kidnapped the Bonnet Wheel
Putting her upon the witchen’ glass
For all to spy, wishing to confuse the poor
Little boy by claiming he did some thing unspeakable.
His words to the Egyptian Tongue, 
When she trapped him, were, “Love covers all sins
“That is my prophecy to you.”
For she wished to trap him by his love
For she knew all who helped her would be destroyed;
Yet, his love covered this sin.

He waxed old, grew wicked in deed but not heart.
Upon a crime, he became a Christian
Yet fell upon the Judiazers’ murderous lot
But did himself not murder any;
For they were sorcerers who practiced law as their sorcery.

He then met John and Mary the Mother of God
Who brought him the trumpet
Which he blew.
Upon that, he went with David’s key and opened the pit
Which has no bottom.
From the pit, spewed Abaddon
Who took his life
From him---
For Abaddon lived with the kings
While The Juniper was safely with his family again
For a short time.

He, this Juniper, Consort to Diana, Athena, Nebo
Lucifer, Sheshak, Jezebel, Ammon, 
Babylon’s Daughter and the Princes of Tyre and Egypt
Was beloved by them, for he was a good little boy.
For they were all ashamed at having caused him harm
Yet, they seethed with hatred nonetheless
For hatred is their native language.
So, Athena came to he
While he dwelt with his beloved family in peace
And placed within him the worm
Which caused him sore distress.
There came into his life more princes
And more kings, and more queens
Until the poor boy lost his mind.
Yet, he became skilled with the pen
And wore truth as his belt.
With the belt of truth, he spoke
Into the recesses of the world
Winning many souls
For all knew his secret shames
Seeing he could live happily with naught.
For, the kings brought him under bondage again
When he began to spy the work they did to him.

He soon grew, ate milk and honey
And cast the kings into the abyss
For the injury they did
To steal him from his happy family.
Yet, the kings were happy to be cast into the abyss
For they loved him, and wished his victory over them
And even did smile at his stories.
Thus, is the Legend of the Juniper.

74. The Ice Princess

She wears a pink hat---strung with puffs
With beautiful Italian hair;
Black eyes, with ice blades on her feet
Pink sweater. Glides over a lake.

She imagines a frost dragon
With ears like periwinkle gills
A spin’d back of triangle bones
Navy blue, nam’d The Zamboni.

There, a prince flies onto the ice
With the great broadsword of legend;
Redcoat attire, brass buttons
Gold crown upon his yellow head.

He takes up arms against this beast
Swinging the sword in great long swings
Cutting out its heart with plung’d thrusts.
The Dragon breath’d his frosty breath.

The ice princess, seeing the prince
Block the frosted fury of war
Called for a winter rain; winds flew.
The Dragon shivered, the prince slew.

The ice princess wandered round, round
Skating down the ice of the lake.
Around the circles, she dreamt well
Of happy thoughts and adventures.

75. At 7

I sit: Read Seuss'
Yellow book of kingsrobin
Font, with Pillowhair

76. Defender

Defender, friend
See yourself new.
Your smile charms,
Charms never few.

A valentine I bring, brings I,
Man's Defender,
Charmstress Alexa.

A friendly note
To a bright light
When days are dark
And hopes gloomy

Alexa, thou
Art August charm
When smiled cheer
Lights the Bank's room.

77. The Smile of God

Shepherd of the Song
You smile, or furrow;
Your datelocks there
Spread from your
Handsome brow.
You smile, or are angry.
The heart of man
Sees, o Prince
Of Peace, your
Dealings. Idol, no;
Just Scripture
In an Image.
To reflect
Either ill or
Joy with one.

78. Faces (A Nonsense Poem)

Faces, there so 
Cruel, cruel.
See what you fear!
Fear, your fears come.
They come, come they;

The king of dirt
Gossip, his spies
Spy, burp, burp, burp.

What does it mean
When you see it?
Hear its those things
You fear that no
Man knows but you?

Ziddon! That's he
You're not insane;
The fear demon
The gossip war,
He entrenches
Every side, his hordes
Of the unclean.

Og, that Philist.
Brute, Philistine.
Gossip, Fear, North
Of wealth,
North of Jealousy.

79. Plastic warrior

Face an army:
Tanks, jets, jeeps, 
Carriers, ships
Battle boats,
Legos, ice bases
Missiles, waffle huts...
A child's peach 
Arm swings
The chopper;---
Plastic men
Fall in rainbows
Of men.
Supply lines
GI's, such
Gravity in play.
Reality, you're
So much different.

80. The Fool and the Favored

A radical man set out
To change the world,
But destroyed the
Country he loved.

A rebellious teenager
Fell in love
And married that
Very same girl.

81. Daughter of Zion

Peace rides upon the West's wind
Wearing her white gown of light.
The Seven-Headed-Stranger
With Sin's seven awful crowns
Attempts to swallow her Son.
There is unrest on the Earth.
Believe in Him, and He comes
To slay the Dragon with sword
And scepter; He cuts with truth,
Cuts the shadow from the light.
Be of peace in heart, while war
Wages its disturbance yon
In lands unknown. Cleave to Her
Son, and do not be troubled.

Merry Christmas

82. Pious

I know I'm  a horrible human being.
However, so are you because you judge me.
If you were in my situation,
The first thing you'd do is reason with yourself:
"I'm not that bad. I just made a mistake."
Because I know, before you're caught,
You look down upon others and their crimes
And you fantasize about your penantant grievance.
You believe you'd slither off into the darkness
And never let yourself dream another dream.
I know, because I had the same faulty notion.
But, no... my sin is discovered.
What do I do? Do I shrink? Is that what I do?
No... because I cannot. And neither could you.
You believe I ought to be pestled down to nothing
Because you believe that's what you would do yourself---
You'd allow yourself to be pestled, and broken, and never forgive yourself.
But, you would. And you'd do exactly what I'm doing,
By trying to make a good life for yourself.

So, before you judge me,
Consider, I was once just like you.
So, let me tell you how it would actually go.
Alright?

83. Quadratic Formulas

The plus or minus
In Quadratic Formulas
Come from the value
Multiplied twice, by itself
Negative or positive.

84. Mothers' and Fathers' Day

It is just an observation.

Mothers' day, at the State Park,
The people numerous, weird,
Dangerous even, had angst.

Fathers' day, at the State park,
The people few, peaceful, kind,
Full of good will, were righteous.

I noted this,
And realized a Father
Does make an impact in a home.

85. Music Proves there is A God

How, except by the design of providence,
Can a melody ask a question, and a melody also answer?
How can one scale be sad, and another happy?
If not because God ordered the tonality of creation
So the human ear would hear it those ways?

86. Christianity Today

The sins of Christianity follow from two bad doctrines:

That Christ rebuked the man at Bethesda---
Christians say, "Did he really want to be healed?"
And they emphatically do so... this was not a rebuke
But a request, as benign as I asking an acquaintance, whether
She wants a cup of water to drink.
It is a presumption that man understands God's omniscience.
We are all called to repent, and sin no more after our healing.
For, their mindset teaches a Christian to be unmerciful to the poor.

The second, is that faith can make us prosperous.
If faith could make us prosperous, the poorest among us
Would be richer than kings. Which, one day they shall become.
Faith, and scolding the Spirit for prosperity,
If you so wish, to be prospered and live your best life now
God shall so choose to give you your best life now;
And you will forfeit your eternal one.
Rather, store your treasures in heaven,
And there, pray for your prosperity...
Which is what the verse actually means,
When James says, "Ask in faith."
This mindset, also, makes us unmerciful to the poor.

87. The Cult of the Academy

To get the PhD, one must be initiated into the secrets of nothingness.
All things, must be circular in their appeal, and all sense, circular
By association. Lying is the custom, and quality a sin.
For, the brainwashing must be complete, and all religion
And healthy behavior must be replaced by the Academy.
Or else, one cannot earn what they have sacrificed so much to obtain.

88. To a Sophist

Oh, thou foul sophist,
You speak in your platitudes…
They have solved all the problems
But the rich have no gratitude.

They can harvest carbon from the sky
And chemically bind it with anon,
They can harvest it from the air,
They can use solar very fair…

The issue isn’t whether we can,
But the rich have asked, whether we ought.
So remember, my dear sophist, that what you lend
Is that the rich wish we were all dead, or bought.

For they hinder our progress,
They hinder it for their shame.
The problems are solved
But they see life as a game.

They want less people
They want less lives;
They want to build a world
And cause all the poor to die.

That is why.

So remember, that our fair Jerusalem,
With its chariots of fire can come
Through the practice of free trade
And its natural progression.

Yet the Satanic Mills of your cause
Which bring upon us unjust laws
Are going to stifle and burn our earth
For the poor upon it, yes the poor, are spurned.

For by the waters and by the breath
Of that good the Carbon, within breadth
We can drive our cars to eternity
If we so choose to live and be free.

For by stifling industry we cause our woes
And we do not solve our problems, but foes
Do try to make themselves a life
Of a world built to be the Rich’s paradise.


89. Satan's Equivocation

God can never be
Tempted. Satan, in Job's book
Tempted God to test.
Yet, to tempt has two senses.
God can never be tempted.

As in, He can not
Even for a second be
Caused to muse a sin.

So, when Satan would
Tempt Jesus in the desert
He could not cause doubt.
Thereby, Jesus could not be 
Tempted in the slightest bit.

90. King of Grecia

Grecia, your world is built through riches'
Prosperity, and your covetous kings
Say, "Let only the merchant who lives
"Be with ninety billion drachma."
You seethe with hatred toward Israel
For it is a prosperous little land.
There it is, with cream and sugar
Oil and spice, meat and fruit.
And you say, "Look how fat this people is;
"They are worth nothing,
"For they consume my sustenance."
So said the King of Grecia
Even covetous of his subjects' fine instruments.
"Do not play, do not play! By royal decree!"
Thus, the musician is regulated to go to her designated
Place, to sing her heart's songs.
Beautiful she is, but the King of Grecia
Does not care about her fine beauty,
For a thousand like he has deflowered.
The fatness of the peasant is an offense to Grecia.
Thus, he wishes to steal our sustenance,
And make music to cease from the land.
Lo! He even says, "We have no need for music
"We have no need for art, we have no need for theater;
"Nothing beautiful excites me, no, not even a warm body
"Or vulva for my flower, not even the great Laments of Shakespeare
"Or the wisdom of Dostoevsky. Not the beauty of Mozart
"Not the voluptuous body of Venus without her arms.
"Nothing is beautiful, nothing is good. I have never loved
"For what is love? I hate my world, and wish it to fall into the abyss."
For his covetousness is severe, that he has no desire;
Nothing for which he wishes or wants.
Not even death. Not even life. Not even purgatory.
He wants nothing, for anything in his grasp he already has.
Thus, he wishes to cause this same frustration on those,
Whom seeing their desire, and their zeal for life---
He wishes it all to stop.

91. King of Persia

Persia, seething with desire, and lust...
All is yours. Everything within your grasp.
What is your subjects, is yours.
What is yours belongs to you.
Every vehicle belongs to you...
Chariots of steel, chariots of iron,
Chariots of plastic might...
All belongs to you.
How your springs beneath your citadel 
Are envied. How you desire,
And you love your desire.
Lust's fruits and every pleasure you exuberantly fill
Your mouth with. Great zeel, great desire...
The citizen you see, his sustenance you wish to be yours.
Covetous, covetous, covetous.
Rain, you wish to make it rain.
Sun, you wish to make it shine.
Wind, storm, tempest, you wish to rise to the status of God in Heaven.
Your princedom you shepherd with the Recitation of your father's word.
And they do your bidding, but nothing they have belongs to them.
You bring forth your chariots, and you ride in them through the heavens...
A god of gods, you ride, like Mithra, and you carry the sun in your chariot of fire.
You want all in subjection to you...
Every cent of wealth in your treasury.
You have no peer. 
You comfort yourself with this wisdom.
None who rival you with your wisdom; none who will rival your fame and fortune.
The peoples will bow in their mud crust shanties, and they will worship you...
It is your vision for the future you wish to construct.
Everything about life you are enthused, and it excites you.
The feast, the game, the war, the contest, the wit...
All art, all theater, all ancient pottery.
If it is truly skilled, you wish it to enrich you...
And only you. Only you, to view it.
All art, and all beauty, in your possession
And for no other eye beside you, and possibly those whom you bestow the blessing
Within your court.
The courtier, the poet, the sage, the scholar, the master, the magician, the fool,
They all entertain you, and those whom you have selected from the Earth
To be your gods who reign with you.

92.

The treasure, though great, will not prosper on the day of judgement,
Thou Grecia and Persia.

93. An Observation

If A+B+C=A*B*C,
Then it is a triangle.

If A^2+B^2=C^2
Then it is a right triangle.

We must understand this about equalities.
Thereby,
If doing a proof,
And one has a formula
A+B
One cannot intuit from this
A+B=0
If in a geometric relation.
For the system of equations
Will define the parameter
Of how the function will equate.
A+B will only equate
In relation to the other sides
Of the Geometric Figure.

94. True Writers; A Ghazal

Robert Frost, when you write on gold's
Green, you write just like I have wrote.

Rumi, you write your Desire
For God: write just like I have wrote.

Hans Christian, so broken, you are 
Like me, writing like I have wrote.

Walt Whitman, when exalting our
Country, you write like I have wrote.

Emerson, your words on Word say
True writers write like I have wrote.

95. Culture Wars

How the Native Americans
Would summate my belief is true---
It is what I believe, wholly.
Just like textbooks wholly show theirs.
Why do we shy away from Say?
As in to say, the textbooks ought
Not believe in Animism,
And give a very clinical
Definition for their beliefs.
No... instead we are now so forced
To see it wholly from their view.
And that is what is being taught.
A perspective where we embrace
The beliefs of those we conquered
In order to then supplement
The religion we so obviously lack.

96. Our Modern Age

I hate our modern age.
Yet I love our modern age.
A stodgy book is Lolita or Gravity's Rainbow
While the books with dust on their covers
Get blown off, and seen afresh.
There is nothing more exciting
Than seeing Austen venerated
And Dostoevsky, too.
The social milieu is repressed sexual urges
Manifesting in the castration and masectomation of our young.
For, they think they can pacify the primal urge
With a knife, hormones and sodomy.
They cannot erase the vesture of the past
For it is too strong an obelisk.
Austen becomes alien,
And so with her the Bible...
Jesus' Sermons become new all over again
As a generation who grew up in the Dogma
Of the Cult of Id find otherness to latch onto.
A whole new crop of thinkers are on the horizon...
Where Joyce and George R. R. Martin
Are the stodgy norm, glutted anarchy and feasts of semen
Those of us who want order
Are drawn to my favorite books.
The stodgy quo is the Aristocracy of Materialism and Postmodernism
While the Religious Avant Garde tell their riskee morals.
"Kill the cannibal society, that rapes children.
"Make slaves of the murderers.
"War has always been genocide
"There is no way around it...
"Yet, the Nazis needed cleansed of their racial impurity
"That of the Aryan caste, they needed to die."
And we are like Camus was seventy years ago,
Like Sartre and Freud.
On the en garde against silly philosophies that hurt and destroy
Our halcyon prosperity.
With words and not bullets we fight back...
Just like they did.
We are now persuasive
We are now the irritating troublemakers.
We are now... yes... we...
The ones' whose truth sets that chemical offense
Because it cannot be fended off by reason any longer.
For, by proof of reason, all we claimed would happen
Was true.

97. The Saint and the Demon

A saint sees his own
Sin, and takes it very harsh.
But, he does not see
The sin in those around him.
He covers them up when known.

A demon others'
Sin he sees, and takes it harsh.
But he does not see
The sin within his own heart.
By guilt, he hurls a stone.

98. My Friend the Artist

My friend, you try to get my goad...
You say, "AI makes art..." knowing
My prejudice against it. AI cannot.
For, like Hitler, the AI copies and pastes
Its formulae, so it is not true art.
But you, you are. I see your mother's face
In the contours of the statute you sketched;
Which could only be done by a human.
For, in the model's obviously european lines
You sketched your mother's African cheeks.
You even tell me why you think it is...
How it takes its poll and measures
The common lay's preferences.
That is not an artist.
That is a marketer. And a marketer is not an artist.
The person with PR skills, they can make
A fortune from dried dung or Rembrandt.
The man like me, unable to do so,
Can only go my way, and die in obscurity
Lest my LORD help me.
For obscurity is all I will obtain if my LORD
Does not bless me. But, at least I can say
I am an artist. And, I can also say, so are you.
Like Mr. Hoffer said,
The artist is content to create
And imbue Mimesis;
Like I told you, that is what makes a piece of art.
That your mother's face imprints on the statue
Like an Oedipal line---
That is what it is to create.

99. War

The atheist's unbelief
Comes from God's holy battles.
For, they see their unholy
Sins, are by God's wrath, rattled.

100. Our Light and Bread

There is a darkness
In this world,
I know it to be true.
But, a little light 
       I have,
I know 'tis in you, too.

I am fed steak
And baked potatoes
Milk, and honey's tooth,
Sweetest corn and meatloaf---
Spiced my daily meals---
For in you a light burns true.

Evil all surrounds me
Yet you work hard
For daily bread;
If not for that light
Within us, our good Father,
We'd be never truly fed.

Happy
	Father's Day
		Love Brandon

101. A Year in Poetry

I write a poem a day, every day, some
Are good, and some are true, others are crude.
A year in poetry before you, from
My heart, my line, my verse, my ideas rude,
Forged in the fires of Crucibles true.
I hope upon one of my verse you stay
And muse a lifetime, and mine be your muse
That pass the weary days away, away.

I write a poem for you, yes you, not one
But many for one each to chew and sleuth.
A poem for one, a poem for all, the stone
I craft, my texture all like soundwaves' screw
They get loud, they get soft, they whisper nude
Which was warped by the world's wicked way
But I would, thus, die for the bull I shoot
That pass the weary days away, away.

Muse over my verse, and find aught what's shown
If it's nothing, or if it's some Thought's food?
Maybe I, a madman who speaks what's known,
Speaks a truth for all or truth for few,
So use the compendium for what's lude 
Or rather research my sayings oh so, so strange
All my metaphors hidden in plain view
That pass the weary days away, away.

Read my words, and read my truths
Read what I have had to say---
Hidden in my verse is proof
That pass the weary days away, away.


©2023 B. K. Neifert
All Rights Reserved

Freedom Steak

Freedom Steak
			               by
   			   B. K. Neifert












Copyright © 2023 B. K. Neifert
All rights reserved.

DEDICATION


	This book is dedicated to every idiot out there, who thinks there are right and wrong answers. 




































	So a flower blooms in winter by a lack of summer rains, does a child bloom prematurely by a lack of parental love.


























Of Yu

Chinese flood, the seed of man floats
Upon the wooden beams and trash,
Debris swept through global currents.
Gun,---mortal god slain!---Yu's father
Rages at The Supreme God's choice
To destroy mankind. Yu, the Loong,
Appears, to quell the Great Flood's wrath.
A Global Flood myth, said to rage
For over twenty years, and the Loong
Is the one who saves mankind, in
Rage at the Supreme Deity
For causing the world to die.






Understand our enemy.
In Chinese mythology
The Dragon saves man from Yah.
Yet, in Chinese History
The Child saves man from Yu.

The dark parable of the Dragon and Lion
Where the Lion wages war with the Gold Dragon
To become the child; it says it is the Loong
Of Thou Shalt, that is warred with by the Lion's fang.
Yet, this myth clearly shows, it is not that Loong who
The Lion wars with, but rather the Golden, Yu.
And then, by warring with the rebel we become
Like the child, guitless, merciful, unable
To know Sin, which is another auld name of Yu.





Pyramids

The reason there are pyramids
On different continents,
Is the same reason there are sleds
And feathered arrows
On different continents.
It is not a conspiracy
Of an ancient, Aryan civilization
Which academia is hiding.
It is because what's possible
Will always produce similar structures
Of Logos.







Bertrand Russell

Good is independent of God.
Yet, Good requires God's judgment to be understood.
Just like God's judgment is necessary
To judge the world and all of its cruelty.
And also to reward all of those who are good.

Jesus' teachings--including hell--
Are perfect and unerring.
Without belief in Jesus, there is no knowledge of good.
There is no knowledge period, if Christ's words are not taken.
As, all things come into doubt without faith.
Even the universe, even gender, even good and evil.
All things must be sustained on a kernel of faith
That it is so.

God gave this world over to the devil
To rule as a Monarch for a time.
In the cosmological scheme,
There are still Christians alive
From the days of Christ---
Surely you know that.
They can live one hundred years
And still be alive to see Christ's return
As time, Bertrand,
Is not linear.
We all experience this life at once
As the earth and heavens shake,
And the cursed figs that would not sprout---
Because it was not in season---
Does not Christ control the seas?
Yet the tree would not obey him,
Just like the people of Israel.
Thus, they were cursed, for having
Rejected Him, even though it was not in season.






Christ calls Himself "Rabbi".
Why is this?
Because He is our teacher.
He is, in a Postmodern sense,
The lens which gives us twenty-twenty vision
And lets us see clearly in the dark;
And if color blind, he even gives us our color vision---
As science has corrected that through glasses.
He is a perfect lens.

I do believe some true part of you has survived;
And what is famous of you is a folkstem;
A liar. I believe some part of you survived
And your soul, much like mine, is travelling
In this infinite expanse of times and universes.
Somewhere, maybe perhaps we will meet;
But your arguments are all the same tired ones I've heard.
I've prepared for all of them
And this is a cursed time we live in.
Which is why suffering is greater than peace.
Throughout all time and space
The entire worlds are quaking and thundering
Under the war being fought by Michael and Lucifer.
God's holy angels have cast the demons to the Earth---
It is our job to patiently bear this with endurance,
And obtain our crown.
Even if it means abandoning everything,
Life, home, wife, child, father, mother, brother, sister,
Husband, land, fame, fortune...
Because there is evil and it must be destroyed permanently.
If not, there will never be an end to the suffering









Young Lion

Satan wanders like a fanged, Young Lion
Searching for his prey to rip asunder.
A Lion, without his Pride of Consorts
Will form a wandering band of brigands,---
Mangy, sodomizing one another
Because they cannot provide for females.
They wander in packs, ripping apart their
Prey, devouring men in their bloody
Paths; no dignity; unmariable;
Broken; bloody jowled and so murderous;
Stealing nourishment from other creatures.








God is Love

God is love.
God is peace.
God is faith.
God is righteousness.
God is joy.

Only through the Holy Spirit
Can we possess these things.
The statement always made sense to me.
That these things are the evidences for God.

Wherever there is true love,
There is God's force emollient within the heart and mind.
It has grown so cold, as of late,
Not many remember it, nor know what it is.

But I do.




The Atheist at Texas Hold Em'

I sit across from a Christian.
We're playing Texas Hold Em.

My cards are dealt.
I get dealt a Jack of Clubs and a Queen of Spades.
My partner bets the big blind;
I ante in.

The flop gets played,
A Jack, Ace and Ten of hearts.

I see my jack pairs well.
But he couldn't have the flush.
Because he bets cautiously,
Exposing he doesn't have the hand.
I cautiously meet his bet;
But I don't raise it.


Next comes the fourth street
And I see a queen of diamonds
Is played. I'm one away from a full house,
But have two pair.
He doesn't bet---
So, I raise him with half my chips.
He has a tell that he's lost...
But, goes in.
"The fool."

Then, the queen of clubs is the river.
He again, doesn't bet.
I without hesitation go all in.
"I'm all in on a loser, who probably has a flush."
The pot is settled,
We show our hands.





He reveals the Queen and King of Hearts;
A royal flush.
"He had it from the beginning;
"How didn't I see it?"

















American Stonehenge

Someone took a pipe bomb
And blew up those damn stones.
Good riddance.
I would have done it myself;
In fact, I had plans to do it.
Those same people censor me
Why not blow their garbage philosophy to hell?

I saw some jeeps driving down the road;
About four of them in a row.
Do you know what I saw?
I saw peace.
I saw the modern Horse and Buggy
And since civilization is so spread out
We need something gas powered to get us around.
There was a sort of peace,
As I rolled up the hill, and down it,
Watching the Amazon Employee
Drive to work in an old Corolla.
I then realized they decided
To decommission about a zillion vehicles
In the "Cash for Clunkers"
Program. Meaning... people won't have
Old Corollas to drive to Amazon.
They'll have new, fancy cars,
If a car at all.
And work, of course, will be for the privileged.
Not for everyone...
Instead of work, you'll be at home,
Making your stipend,
And living off the roach feces
And ant colonies in the spring.

I realized, they censor me.
Why not blow their little plan to hell?
I'd like to see them strung up by their big toes
And whacked like pinatas.
I hope Elon Musk makes a rocket ship
And they all just, blast away,
If they find our little blue sphere a bother.
And on they go, like that Steve Miller Song,
And the world will be rid of a couple of griping
Old billionaire fools, who did nothing good anyway.
Since they like Ayn Rand so much,
John Galt can go to Mars for all I care.
The rest of us will fare without them.
Without their dumb laws and hindrance to our freedom.
It wouldn't solve all the issues...
There'd just be another set of bratty billionaires after them
And they, too, could fuck off when the world got sick of them.
We don't want their feudalism, communism,
Or any of it.
Just make our Stoves and Canned Soups...
We don't need your plans for a "Better World."







William Sidis

His major theory,
Simplified for you,
Is that life reverses the Law of Thermodynamics.

It seems to be true,
As looking over his work
It was dazzling to me
How Non Compos Mentis it was.
How unconnected; 
Also, how illogical.

But, then I thought about
Why one would say
Life, in the universe,
Reverses the Laws of Thermodynamics.

I thought of Evolution...
How, life is one of the only
Things in existence
Where we observe complexity and growth
Over time, and not degradation. 
A white floret, with five petals and a honeysuckle scent
Turns into the awesome folds and delicious perfume
Of a magenta rose.

I then thought of Greensaling,
How Nigeria uses FMNR
To make lush what was once deserts.
I remember the Texan who
Managed to replenish ground water
Just by planting grass
And removing Cedars.








It became clear to me,
That what Sidis was trying to say,
Although going around in circles
And hypothesizing on outlandish physics,
Was the simple observation that Life
Replenishes, and reverses the decay
We'd normally associate with the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

I realized it was a romantic thought
Not based entirely on speculation...
And the experimentation 
Is being done all over the world right now
Where entire deserts are being reforested
And entire barren landscapes are now becoming lush again.







What I then realized,
Was that if this were true, 
It would prove the existence of God.
As, if life does indeed 
Transform what is dead, and make it alive,
Then there must be a force
Greater than science
And our decaying universe.












The Exodus

One of the best ways to know the Exodus was real
Is that it was almost unilaterally resisted
By the people. Any man writing fiction
Who wished to indoctrinate and make servile
His audience, wouldn't have included a critical story
About how people would wander for forty years 
In a desert, and at every turn resist the leader God appointed to them.
They'd rather, be like Muhammad writing his book, 
And make everything glorious victories.
Rather, you get a sense of the reality, that anyone lost
In a wilderness for forty years would be bound to frustration and doubt.
And at the last, seeing Moses held his position through it all,
Is the greatest miracle, that only God could stop those people from deposing him.




American Elegy

By name America lives
Only by name.
Spies enter into the homes of innocent men,
And take their books,
And change them.
They make Edna St. Vincent the author of "First Fig".
Several months earlier, it was another author's name.
I had read the poem...

Is it the same for you?
Are these tools of ignorance
A weapon used against me only
Or is it the altering of the very fabric of history?
Is it a lie of narratives
Which some day, my American Myth really will be a myth
That nobody believes like Jesus
Or the Global flood?


President Bush, do you condone this behavior?
You say, "That's not real?"
Then why do they feed me with it?
A host of actors playing a role
And none of us know whether it's real or not.

Or, is it only me?
Am I the one being fed?
I try to write America's Magnum Opus,
The complete history,
But am unable.
I do not trust my sources
As your spies have entered into my home
And stole my books,
And committed plagiarism by publishing
False titles under Fall River's Press.

Or, is Edna St. Vincent the actual author of First Fig?
The Red Wheelbarrow used to be in my book,
Now it's replaced by "Queen Ann's Lace."
Did William Carlos Williams write this poem?
I don't know.
And for that, America, I write your elegy.
Your freedom is gone,
For this one man's freedom is gone.
The freedom to have truth,
And share a common story.
For, I know not the truth,
Only that I have been severely scorned.

America, goodbye.
You were a shining beacon on a hill.
Now you're no better than China.









My POV

Here is what I tell Atheists:
Good is a force which is inherent
And immutable and not conditioned to a man's personal beliefs.
Evil, as well, is inherent, and not conditioned to a man's personal beliefs.
Life is vain, and isn't where the focus should be.
I am a life, breathed into by God, 
And when that life is gone, I go.
I have choice, but God already knows the intimate details of my choices,
And has awarded me grace based on that omniscience.
I believe in God because of science.
I believe the Old Testament was God telling man to save himself,
And now that man failed, God has promised to save us;
This means we ignore the Old Testament's laws completely.
I believe love is an inherent spiritual force, along with joy and peace,
Which flows from divine Paraclete, and is the best evidence for God's existence.
I think life's meaning is to fully devote oneself to understanding Love, 
So, therefore, learn to love God and their Neighbor.

I cannot accept the atheist point of view.


















Atheist POV

What every atheist I'd ever talked to said:

"I understand good,
"Though I don't actually believe good exists.
"To me, good is just what benefits people.
"And evil is just what harms people.
"Life is meaningless,
"All I am, is a chemical reaction of firing neurons,
"Which produce all my decisions and beliefs
"And also the environmental conditioning which made me.
"I do not believe in God,
"Because science disproves God's existence.
"I believe the Bible is immoral because it condones Genocide and Slavery.
"I believe love is different for every person,
"And is just a euphoria created by our endocrine system.
“Homosexuality doesn't hurt anyone,
“And God saying it is wrong offends me.
"Life's meaning is whatever we make it.”



Does this sum up your position, Atheists?

















Iron Ore

Can't fertilize the ocean with iron.
Rust is poisonous to fish.

















A Fox

There is nothing more despicable than a fox.
A gnarly haired, weasely fox.
It goes from place to place, wandering
Until it finds a nice little grove
Where all the meeker animals are at rest.
There, the animals are at rest,
And frolic on the knolls, will linger
By the human legs which wander nigh.
Then, the fox sees this, with belly growling
And it decides to disturb the years of peace
By picking off the little ones.
Then the meek ones.
Then the plump ones.
Birds, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks.
All the nice little animals which before,
Like the little chickadee which nearly perched on my sandal
It eats them. 
And the animals, restless, stir from their holes
And no longer linger by the travelers foot.
Never having known danger,
The meek little mild bunnies die
With wounds in their sides,
Half eaten. To be thrown into the garbage can.
And one Fox does this, and when the habitat is disturbed,
And restless, and scared, it is happy
So it moves to the next pleasant forest,
And there, does its murderous spree once again.












The Freemasons

He joined the masons to find the truth.
He joined to find his selfish verity.
Around, around, around he went, bloody bib
And found a thousand fairy tales.
Myths were told, and some old Ghost Stories,
While they pondered on geometry.
What ended was his self made religion
A god of worlds, he created his mind...
A thousand neural pathways linked,
He filled his head with fairytales,
And at the end, he died not knowing 
What a Mason even was.







Alex Jones

"Alex Jones is a madman,"
They painted him as a bad man,
Yet I must confess that in his words
Were some truth.

He was wrong about the shooting,
He was wrong about the spooking
Of CIA planes hitting our twin towers.

Yet, if he were not right I say,
I'll eat a pile of rice and pray
With my curry and my ginger
And some salt.

I'll eat and drink and be merry.
But Alex Jones, a Canary
Is pressed by Beatty that sleazy
Court-Lawyer, fool and slime.

Like Bradbury had spoken,
That fool who hates talk is a broken
Government with kerosene and fire.

Ol Beatty will live unspoken,
A dumb man who has broken,
Ol Alex Jones' spirit can you say?

For we are allowed to be wrong
We can see and sing our dumb songs
We can't be sued for what we truly believed.

Alex, live unbroken,
Get a fine lawyer 
And use that token
To fully defend our free speech. 




Nonsense Poem From a Dream

I beheld a man who claimed to be a
Woman; lofty were her eyes, with my auld
Grandmother there. "She is my grandma, too."
In Jotunheim, thou did call me a "god"?
And told me that you talked to me about 
Racial purity; how the Germans were 
Actually Jews. That day you hypnotized
Me. You tried to kill me twice; you fooled them
But not me. You stole my dog and my work.
You spoke through Jacob, saying I copied 
Thou, but I did not; yet Jacob said I 
Am not bad, as I listened to sermons
Where the LORD said to me, I, Israel,
"I won't give my glory to another.."
In my dreams a bunny and Scruffy would
Cuddle with you, yet all my delusions
Were sprung upon you in that instant. A
Rabbit nestled with you; oh so gently.
Scruffy was there, too, as the men in masks
Came, with auld family who have since now passed.
I awoke with peace this morning, knowing
That you were but a nightmare, far away.
You are imposters. Both of you. Selah.
















On Judgment

In prosaic verse allayed,
Southey talks of Perpetual motion---
I know not where, but at some time it existed---
As poet Laureate, he attacked free speech.
He rails against men whose verse is sublime---
Don Juan, were you not seduced
By many? My member is dry
And my morsels stolen.
Are you insane, Robert?
I've read your poetry---
I've defended it, though I know not why.
You call forth a vision and place a Tyrant in heaven?
Meanwhile, Byron writes of St. Peter's rusty keys?
You called forth that attack, 
Not I! For, I am a defender of free speech.
I am speech's solemn knight,
Saying this sacred right fends off the most fierce tyrants.
Perhaps, my love, thou art Maddok---
Making love with many women,
Fending off and aggravating freedom of speech,
A slave to kings---I am a free man!
Do I prescribe rules against free speech?
Do I say Byron is not allowed to write?
I love his verse, for it is prophecy.
Yet do the prophets err?
For many men have entered heaven.

I now understand, as the Urn with Ashes and Homilies.
I will defend Byron's freedom, and yours.
I will fight for your work to be read,
And mine, and Byron's
And Martin's, and Blake's, and Green's,
And King's, and Bradbury's,
And Rowling's, and Smith's,
And Marx's, and, so with it, also yours.
I am in love with genius of all kind---
I love radicals of all kinds.
Don Juan, I see you in my dreams.
And I see you.



Blood Red

China, your skies are bloody red!
What do the astrologers and soothers say?

I say, it happened once before, the year of Boston's bloody massacre.
And from that massacre, America was freed from the yoke of tyranny.

Thunder, hail, storm,
You shall be pestle
And turned to the sea.
Your odor shall waft abroad.







Martian Doorway

Open this doorway honey,
I'm roving tonight
Through the banded hollows
We see, we feel, we take flight.

Walk right through to the other room
I see a couple brooms,
I see a janitor's closet,
I see some computers, too.

Walk through this Martian Doorway,
The Moon landing was real---
Buzz Aldrin and Harry Hapsburg
Have walked there for some cheap thrills.

In the sky above us, 
There it hangs a silver thread.
A May Moon cannot lie
As toilet paper gets stolen by the feds.

Martian Doorway,
The moon it is not a lie...
Yet what lies beyond that doorway,
Is it yet another artificial sky?

Our generation is so hollow,
Its achievements a rare feast.
There is nowhere left to wallow,
So out of the ocean came the beast.

And there he walked through shadows,
And there he walked through fame.
Oh, Martian Doorway,
Is the truth ever so lame?

Martian Doorway,
The moon, it is not a lie
What lies beyond that doorway,
Is it yet another artificial sky?

Fact checkers, and ministries of truth---
They have you afraid of Cooties,
For the common man ain't no sleuth.

Then the feds change the almanac,
Thinking they have power over I.
They leave the time at 6:16
My God, It was seven once upon a time!

O, the blind bats sing the door jams,
Green Day skates on thin ice,
Joe Satriani is questioned,
Whether a keyboard warrior's information was right!

Martian Doorway,
The moon, it is not a lie
What lies beyond that doorway
Is it the discovery of foreign life?



Then the hoodoos are falling,
The blimps descend like Babylon,
The peoples all do their crossings,
As they see the alien in lights.

Ooo, Martian Doorway,
The moon, it is not a lie
What lies beyond that doorway
Is it the discovery of foreign life?

Walk into that room and you'll see,
No starship nor star command.
You'll see a spook in overalls
That he is but a man.
There he steals the toilet paper,
He tries to change the almanac,
Yet, it is a complete failure,
They are crazy like Animaniacs.



Ooo, Martian Doorway,
The moon, it is not a lie.
What lies beyond that doorway?
Is it but another white lie?

















My Philosophy

In the simplest way,
I believe all things are what they are.
I believe we understand things based on that.
And I go no further with my philosophy.















Boethius

Wisdom,
Counsel him.
Yet, all scholars remember
Of his magnum opus
Is the chaffe about omniscience.

No, I am more interested in the wheat.
God is joy, and through attaining Him
We have joy.
For the wicked hold no power
And wickedness cannot have
The higher pleasure.
For, true joy is attained through
Divine relationship with LORD God;
It is also found in family, friends and those whom we love.




Sufficient to say,
My knowledge of future events
Doesn't stop the free agency of men
From making them, any more
Than God's.















A Meditation on Two Pears

I understand it
Perfectly; even the blue
Bits. Yet, the pears are
Not as this observer wills.
Every mind constructs its archetypes.














Sandy Beaches

Papias, by your calculation,
There will be twenty-five sextillion
Souls saved, and each soul
Shall save ten-thousand,
Until the last ten-thousand ten-thousand
Grapes bear their twenty five baths of blood.
Interestingly, you're not out of the ballpark
Of what scripture said would be saved---
That is one human being for every grain
Of sand off of the coasts of all the world's beaches.
That number, respectively,
Is 7.5 sextillion---
Even to hypothesize sextillions
At 90ad, is miraculous enough.





Gateway 2000

In 1997, my computer had 16 Megabytes of ram.
It had three point five gigabytes of hard drive space.
And a 200 Mega Hertz Processor.
















The laptop I'm using today---
Windows 8, from 2013,
In 2023;
Mind you it was top of the line for its day---
Has a missing key that flung off
When my dad threw a piece of paper in a tantrum.
The keyboard also doesn't work---
I'm typing on my fourth keyboard
And it's a wireless with a mouse and keyboard combo---
I use Bluetooth frequently to listen to Pandora
On my bumpster speaker,
And can wirelessly connect it to my 
TV to watch YouTube,
My computer has 8 Gigabytes of Ram
2.4 Gigahertz of Processor speed
And a modest Terabyte of Hard Drive Space.
And it has a very convenient touch screen to boot.




Calculus in Tanka

A limit can be 
Calculated, true; but the 
Calculations can 
Never approach the limit---
It's where infinities touch.

A sine function works
On the logic of Pi. So,
The sine function will
Work off considerations
Of circles' geometry.

Zeno's Paradox
Is calculus. The leaps are
The calculations
While the limit is the place
Where man and reptile meet.


One can measure the 
Sermon on the mount, and like
Calculus, measure
The Golden Rule to fully
Calculate and find Jesus.















Bittul

It is what God is teaching me---
The emptying of my self for compassion's sake
And to humble myself before others
And not to make a show of knowledge.

For, Christ's command was Bittul,
To rebuke a Pharisee for straining a gnat
While he swallowed a camel by forgetting his compassion.











The Harsh Truths

I can conceive of towers reaching twenty miles tall.
I can conceive of technologies that bring us to Times and Universes all.
I can conceive of travel to the outer edge of space.
I can conceive of a Universe infinite and great.
I can conceive of manmade structures, the size of Red Giant Stars
I can conceive of settlements on Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and Mars.

What I see is our species trying to hang a building from a stone,
An asteroid in  high orbit, how obliviously cold
They are to bring a thing so nigh
To our earth which could destroy cities; also how are we there to fly?
I see us trying to make Fusion from sulfur, nitrate and charcoal
I see us fearful to understand leverage, oh so how ominous the toll?




I'm afraid in our current intelligence, travelling to any distant star
Will be as impossible as it seems it is, to make a flying car.
For if we decide to use aerodynamics and fossil fuels,
To make a car fly with helicopter blades and pull
The winds up, while a Maglev we cannot seem to find
Time enough to improve our infrastructure, with a simple technology of that kind;
I'd say that we must discover antigravity
Before we could ever hope to sail the Hyperborean sea.

If I were an average mind, say about 100 level IQ
We'd possibly do the things I conceive, and have problems very few.
Yet, our species is simplistic and absurd.
I'm afraid we won't achieve our missions, but must live here upon the Earth.
So, my friends, learn to live in unity, and learn to get along.
For, this Earth and all its sorrows, shall be our only home.




Helios

The idol stood thirty cubits tall;
He towered for fifty years.
Then, the mountains groaned,
Tired upon their course,
They stretched at the command of the LORD.
At his knees, the idol fell,
And there lay he dead
His corpse to be used a millennia later
In Arab swords.










O Sweet Child

O sweet child
I came to tell you a truth.
Many will listen to the song
That sounds much like the winds and reveries of us all.
For men want to hear their hearts pipe to them from the other hearts.

But, to draw into the deep darkness,
To pour out truth is far more fruitful.
For, when acceptable in the eyes of the LORD
The strong winds of the crowd
To whom we chaunt,
Err like Echo, and it chaunts back;
Understand it is not our reflection to choose
In the poesy we pluck…
Rather, it is the heart of another
And their wisdom.



Whom, though, yours grew dark,
I ask you, “Was it I?”
And if that answer is yes,
I am sorry.
The carnal mind is full of sweetness,
But we try our furnace,
And let the embers flow over our souls
To melt its dross.
 
Skim it with the instrument.
Set it free.
For your prior truths were far more precious to me.








Academy

The professor pompously speaks his formulae;
Yet, he does not understand it.
He, rather, performs by rote his routine
A show, an ethos,—cries out foul on the students
Who do not trust him to give them the answers.
He fools millions, yet we understand it because a computer told us.
The mystery of this invention,
That what it says must be divine rite,
The professor uses it as an example
To teach, but he does not know what he teaches.
The Academy men sought out wisdom.
Our modern Academy, men remember what was wise
But becomes as vacuous as an empty vessel.
For, to have knowledge without understanding
Is a kind of sin we have passed down through our generations.




Doctor of Hearkening

All night one thinks
How he spoke Word;—
To chew until the mind fell asleep.
To inspire the same in others
It would be too much the dream come true.

To write a word, in strong verse
That one man, or woman, or child
Drank deep.

How I wish I could be the Doctor of Listening.
The grief that much wisdom was spoken
But I could not find it all in this short life of mine.
Grief, subtle sadness, that it exists…
Awesome is the impasse of our fellowminds.



To speak into the ether
Where none were listening;—
I realize the Earth didn’t need a great poet.
It needed a hearkener.
















O Requiem of the Dead Poets

O' requiem of the dead poets
Alighted your vigor,
Your ancient souls do rest in the grave.
Your words course through me...
The subtle, inauspicious meanings
That the madman sees and says,
"Aha, it says nothing."
So little is said that is said
Loud, bold and obnoxious.
Inebriation of subtle inquiries
Subtle thoughts and subtle shadows
Of thoughts. I ask, "Why do you need
"A meaning that is loud, and bold
"When Rhetoric favors ignorance?
"However, subtle souls have taught me subtlety
"And with that the mingling of all knowledge."


Yet, it was foreseen that the man of inquiry
Did not want revealed the heart of another man
But to only look into a reflective pool.
He did not want to share, or understand.
Merely to have his own ideas shouted back at him.

Thus, blood ran in the streets.
Thus, dead were wheeled through the thoroughfares
For seven days of revolution.

All for loud, droning war songs
And not the quiet voice of reason
Understanding its world,
And gaining from it packets of wisdom
Which does not gallivant through the street
Nor does it make its words an enchantment.
It, rather, seeks to understand what others are too busy to understand
And pass by, leaving its little packet of pollen upon the pistil
To germinate into the next budding spring.

While pseudo-philosophers war over who is right
And who's brand of ideology shall be superior...
We, the poets---who are long dead, or shall die---
Leave behind the subtlety of more ancient wisdoms
Which the world, as it fights its wars
Would some day soon find again
And see there upon the page what folly it was
That right and wrong were not to be won by the muzzle of a gun
But were simply to be found, and rediscovered
A thousand times by
Us, the poets who are dead, or shall be dead.










All Wisdom Failed

All wisdom failed.
All prophecies never came true.
A million contradicting voices
And mine is one of them.

I suppose I do not prophesy.
I tell stories.
Stories that curdle the imagination,
And often feel like dreams.

We often do disservice to our philosophers.
We often do disservice to our novelists.
Those are the true prophets.
I hear a thousand and one prophecies,
Yet none of them ever come true.




They speak, they talk, they go over a million times.
Yet, what is the prophecy that came true?
They say, "Revival in the summer."
There is no revival.
They say, "A great harvest."
There is no great harvest.

One prophet said there would be a great harvest,
And him I'll believe.
For, he has the authority I look for
Which is sobriety.
Yet a million and one prophets
All get it wrong.
They predict the rapture,
But it never comes.
They predict the end,
But it doesn't come.
They desire it with all their little hearts
But thankfully, God spares their foolish dreams
And forgives them their errant prophecies.

How many false prophecies have I spoken?
Yet I don't pretend like I have never told
A single lie.
I understand that if my vision does not come true
I am liable to the court and judgment and death.

Yet, they break my faith with every one of their prophecies
For it never comes to fruition.
Save a few here and there who I find trustworthy.

Milton was a prophet
Who saw that astronomy would lead many astray.

Nietzsche was a prophet
Who understood that if God didn't exist, neither did morality.

Tolstoy was a prophet
Who understood that civilization moves its predestined course; there is no changing it.


Dostoevsky was a prophet
For though he doubted God, he believed wholeheartedly in His morality.

There is an old proverb, 
"You are neither hot, nor cold.
"Buy from me wisdom, and gold refined by fire."

For our prophets are hidden because the peoples give them no honor.
Instead, they listen to the pop-culture ideas
And the chemical imbalances that make the world look upon us
And say we're crazy.

No, not you, who said that December will be a harvest.
I know you are true.
One in a million.




Yet, the prophets all prophesy a lie.
The lie is that I once, too, had a rapture dream.
Several of course.
It was not prophecy.
It was merely the thoughts running through my mind.

Though, I get caught up, 
Wanting there to be a rapture.
I truly do.
I want to fly up into the heavens
And be met with Christ on the trumpet's sound.
I do not want to suffer on the earth
Anymore than anyone else.
It's just the destiny of this writer
To see the truth.
For, I am a true interpreter.
I see billions who know nothing of Christ.
I see frantic Christians prophesying the end is near.
And I see the religion dying
Because no one is sober enough to understand.


Yet, one prophet keenly said the religion will not die,
For there will be a harvest.
I await this harvest, with humble expectation.
For, if it comes, it means I shall not be alone.

And I say this soberly.
There will be a great falling away.
As is prophesied.
For, God's wrath is true.
But, do I believe that every profession of faith
Will be a ticket to avoid suffering?
No... for there are many that will say
"LORD, LORD," And be told to depart.

Those are the men who said, 
"Grace! Grace!" and yet they had no change of heart.
I am the man who's had a change of heart.
For the religion will not die in my heart.
For I know my God is true.

And when I read Yeats or Byron
I understand them.
For, they are prophets, too.
They give me introspection
Into the hearts of man;
Like Balaam, I can understand
Why a man wants loveless sex.
I can understand why a man's lust
Leads them astray.

And with that understanding,
I can benefit the doubting
And say, "No, I do not doubt.
"For I see the order of the universe
"And I see the construction of the Word of God
"Behind every act, large or small.
"I see the strings of creation
"The Twelve Universes
"Layered one upon each other.
"I understand all things
"That are in my grasp to understand.
"I see the invisible strings of faith
"That prove God exists.
"As the world doubts him
"Harder and harder
"I grow to understand
"That indeed God does exist.
"I understand that He is Jesus.
"Even if none else do
"I understand why God had to Come in the Flesh
"Why God had to die.
"I understand sin...
"Deep and ill tempered within me.
"I understand war,
"Why it happens,
"Why men kill each other...
"How wicked men slaughter one another
"For glory, while peaceful men shiver."




And I say all of this
Without a doubt that Jesus is the Christ.
I see it.
Like Euclid could find God in his Elements
I can find God in the certainty of the universe.
I can see God in the sin I've had in my heart.
For I've seen very few good people in my life.
And hell exists because there are few good upon the earth.
And heaven exists because there are those of us
Who are good, and our hearts get twisted
In wrenching pain because the kindness we understand
Doesn't seem to be known.








Vision of Prosperity

One day, alighted upon my fortune
There came a weary traveler.
She had found a wellspring of tales
As seemingly old as time,
Yet discovered they were new.

"What have I found?"
She wondered, as tales abounded
Among the language of the Saxon.
What were these?
Rife with mystical creatures,
Yet such was the fortune found
That it suddenly appeared
To this modern writer's
Ancient poesy, 
That it was discovered
And thus enjoyed
For as long as time was kept.




The Alchemist's Magic

During the time of King Arthur,
There arose a dispute between Merlin
And an Alchemist.
The dispute was over the interpretation of
A story; namely the story of a princess 
Who fell in love with a prince
Who rescued her,
And upon their first kiss, the spell of sickness was released from her.
The Alchemist spoke on the matter
That the union between the prince and princess
Was not about love, per say,
But was rather about the soul finding its unity
Like the unity between the Earth and the Seas.





"I heard the Alchemist's reflections,"
Said Merlin,
"On the meaning of the tale.
"I thought of her ;
"It was immensely strong, yet my knowledge of
"Word was stronger.
"Where she dove into herself...
"Deep reflections,
"Deeper than the rivers and the oceans---
"I read the Tale for what it actually meant,
"And saw that it was not so deep.
"Yet, in it I could see what she could not.
"A glimmer of hope
"Which her jaded soul stopped believing in long ago.
"For some reason, she had wanted the story to be about the soul
"Having knowledge of itself,
"And was offended at the notion
"That these two, upon a brief encounter, could be happily wed
"And therefore, be unburdened by the misery of their loneliness.
"What caused her to doubt the story's true meaning
"Was that she had not found that meaning in her own life
"Thus, she had created a meaning which suited herself.
"I am a lonely old fool too,
"But I have a rather different interpretation of the story
"That what it meant sufficed enough to say
"That true love of the kind does exist
"And I am happy to know that it does."













The Dream of Sorrow

The grayness surrounds us
As my love stares into me with eyes
Filled with affection.
Outside of her, is fright toward the gray world.
I am happy;
Joyous even.
But she, toward me, is full of love
As her other eye casts a doubtful glance
Into the grey abyss
As if it were filled with fright about something.

I look as if I were my favorite author
And she looks beautiful,
In gray hair,
Though that eye looking outward
Frightens me severely.
What is it that she is seeing?
In toward me it is love
But outward
It is fright,
Even the dull gray
Of a world. Like one were looking into a lake
Gray and colorless.
Though I am happy.

I do not know what the vision means.
Only that I am in it.
I would gladly take she who saw it
Or I will take the woman in the dream.
Make joyous sounds
O Israel,
For your time has yet to come.

Yet, I am frightened by the eye
Casting doubt on the grey world.
Yet, toward me she is happy.




True Friendship

A friendship, when built upon honest first
Impressions, sparks a sincere intercourse;
Which, neither putting forth a facade's mirth
Can be built with true knowledge's comfort.














An Ode on Fate

What keeps a man, when Abraham is preached,
From imitating him,---in murdering
His son?---to, another's life, be the thief?
Much the same that allows one, whose reading
Of a poet, understand the clever
Metaphors, and gives one's knowledge a truth.
'tis what allows a man knowledge; whispers
In his ears the meaning of sweetest fruit.
There is the literal, which, willing kills,
Without concept lays actions bare and bald.
The literal reading atheists fill
Christian minds, searching deeply for a fault.
Yet, we somehow know what a passage means,
For that is why faith remains; 'tis unseen.
Should man without this ability be,
Such man, hell's stone be his foreboding vault.




The Snake-Ape

Audiences love it.
Is it an ape? Is it a snake?
No one knows.
Is it a metaphor about man?
Or, is it simply a fiction without a metaphor?

The flying snake-monkey becomes a god.
It despises man---
Is it truly conscious of its own potential?










Had I written the story,
The snake-ape would be a metaphor
About man's progression.
How science made him into a "God".
And subsequently the vanity of it;
The pretension---as any thing which calls itself a god
Is pretentious, and must be pretentious.
The snake-ape would first start in the wilderness,
And evolve into a creature which could fashion instruments
That give it flight; power over fire.
Instead, the snake-ape becomes wiser than man?
It becomes a metaphor about ancient traditions
Needing to be accepted by man
So they are not consumed with science?









I'm sorry, but I don't worship a snake-ape.
Those who do, had eaten the hearts of mankind.
So, one puts forth an utterly foul interpretation for god
And preaches to me how we need it?
Rather, I'd want men to be atheists
So they could at least discover that there is good
With the precise measurements of scientific instruments.
Then, at least, we could better compare what we've discovered
And see it matches up with one particular God
Of a people so small, so minute, yet given the mysteries of the moral universe.

For, men will ultimately discover there is need for law;
They might even go so far as to purge all unlawfulness by pogrom.
Yet, it's Christ and His mercy. That is what man need attain
So he can be truly happy.





Rashomon

He doesn't prove witnesses are unreliable
But that modern culture is filled with liars.
















Oh Eye, Thy Magic; Haiku

Oh eye, thy magic
Cast upon my busy back,
Cause the hand to fail...















The Hymn of the Citizens

Fife and drum go Hum dee dum,
The marching citizens draw their guns
Their words, their airs, their country farms
Did get sold by the county Bar…
Hum dee dum,
Hum dee dumb.

We wage this revolution with our words
Not a bullet we will incur
We shall march in our battle lines
With these words and verse so spry…
Hum dee dum,
Hum dee dumb.

If a martyr we shall make
To speak our words and masticate
That violence spreads in silent wakes
Hum dee dum
Hum dee dumb.

I shall not e’er throw a stone
If I shall die all alone
I shall not ever throw a stone
For my words are mortar bombs
Hum dee dum,
Hum dee dumb.

Wage a revolution wise
That men in flames, they do die
While I have sung my battle cries
For the wasted men who die
Hum dee dum,
Hum dee dumb.

We might have our first president
A woman good with righteousness
She might give us what we need
A stitch, a bone and well hemmed sleeves
Hum dee dum,
Hum dee dumb.

But the ghosts they testify
That with the awful costs they cry,
That they should give a man his rights
When a woman ought to win the fight,
Hum dee dum,
Hum dee dumb.

Trump, I say, is not the cost
He is not the one who robbed us all
It is not Warren nor congress’ cauc…
It is all the specious laws we wrought,
That by liberty’s woes they cause,
Hum dee dum,
Hum dee dumb.

So I sing this verse or two
Of revolution with words couth
That if a woman should not be right
But a man should win the fight,
Hum dee dum,
Hum dee dumb.




The Valley of Decision

There’s nothing more to write.
There’s nothing more to say.
Sailing off to the other-world
At the end of life
Is the only sweetness I can lend.

How reason has proven false
All that I loved.
And with that, blood flows through the valleys
Of the wine press.
Lay burden to bear
There were two things I desired.
I will find them when the ship sets sail.
For— You might call it pretentious
But I like writing complex poems.
It speaks what this mind conjures
In full breadth of its image.


Perhaps like music
It is loved for the repetitions.
That we can predict the next sequence of notes.

In my eye, I see great things
Landscapes and valleys.
I wish to choose language that speaks what is in me.
But, whatever I love, it is insufficient.
What I hate, it is regarded as priceless.
So, blood spills down the valleys
Because we mistake what is stone
With what is flesh.

I would love to fly away like a bird
Or hide away in the forests I love.
But, rather, I see the whole world wishes itself to change.
And if change it must,
Then men are the artifacts they worship.
For no knowledge can prove the foundations of love.
Yet, there it is for me to see and touch.
Rather, it takes much imagination to reason it away.
When I set sail, I would have already known.




History Flows in its Direction

“History flows in its direction—
Those who stand in its way
Are artifacts.” — A Postmodernist

How many men does history leave behind?
A good and prosperous nation
Which it did its best to break;
Praises the Cur Kairos
Who is allied with the serfs
Who, after having been made free,
Wish to place themselves back in shackles.







In the Hell Built For the Rich

In the hell built for the rich
The idle rich, and the angry rich
Do their dance in the river styx.

How I can see it,
But the translator cannot.
In fact, nobody has ever found it before.

Probably because a poet knows their poetry.
And we know why it's written.

While Plato lambasted us for not being credible
I found poetry is not our catalog of factoids
But rather the history of our moral knowledge.




The Crown of Bacchus

Tyrant, o thou Fear!
Crippling art thou, Raging Pharaoh.
Thy decree is swift
Thy knife of angst stings all breasts
And stops all hearts from beating.

This phantom in the street
Hooded like the Shadow
Moves from door to door.
Bacchus’ crown, o Pharaoh
Is upon thy head
To steal from the little yeomen
Their ale and odes.
Where is the song in the taverns?
Where is the joy and mirth?
O, Pharaoh, with Bacchus’ crown,
You in your attire had silk and cashmere raiment
But stole the cotton-wool from the merrymakers.
Could you not spare them the miserable existence?
Or, must you continue to thresh us into the wind?





At the End of the Day

At the end of the day
There is not a shred of evidence.
Either aye or nay,
Either right or wrong.
For, when all are fools
And believe themselves wise
That other men had not spoken
That all ideas must be catchy and pithy quips…
What knowledge there is was hidden
By men in a state of egocentric predicament.








Love Is Useless as a Passion

Love is useless as a passion.
It turns knitted hearts astray.
Walking through the deserts
The children one bore to that woman
Stood, with their halved lives.
They said, “Mother, do you love papa?”
She, being a fool said, “No.”
It was that uttered word that caused
The children to suffer so much ill.
Love was just a chemical—
And once the salts were made
From the Lemon and Soda
There was no more love.





The man, having fallen out of love with her long ago
Was at work, turning the leather upon a spoke
Dipping it in his tanning juice
Heating it,—he was content to come home
And see his wife, make love to only her,
Provide for his children.
But, when he got home the fool said to him,
“I do not love you.”
At that moment a passion erupted in the man
Which revolted her, for she could feel no such passion.

Though, it wasn’t the broken heart of lost endorphins.
It was a happy life, and doing what man and woman had always done,
That was taken from him.
And so with his children.

If I ever find a woman,
I hope she understands this.




Ant

A tiny ant.
It neither has the ears to hear
Nor the eyes to see.
Yet, it knows I'm in the room.

What organ do I lack
To perceive God?
Like the ant cannot perceive me.
It knows I'm there by my voice.
It doesn't hear it.
It doesn't see it.
It simply knows there is a voice
Calling to it.

I must be that same tininess
To God.





The Eagle and the Dove

In the Eagle's nest, the carrion was fed
And the Eaglets ripped apart one another
For their mother's pellet of vomit.

In the dove's nest, the silver lined
Creature flew, peacefully giving
The milk from her throat.

One day, eggs from the two nests were switched.
The dove hatched in the Eagle's nest,
And the Eagle hatched in the dove's nest.

The Eagle, seeing it was weak,
Would not feed the dove,
So she starved to death,
And was picked apart by her brothers and sisters.



The dove, seeing her giant offspring,
Fed what she could, but on account
That the bird could not drink her milk,
The Eaglet got hungry, and committed patricide.

Such are wolves and sheep, too.
Such are the evil and good among men.














Captious Scholars

It is "Delicious"; twice the word is used.
It arouses my distaste, Mr. Emerson,
Yet the moment I trusted your ability
I felt the flow of your spirit into mine.

I often wonder how many of our Scholars
Will not see the efficacy of another's verse
Because they, too, delight in this vice?










Mad Spring

In the deep winter,
When the trees call forth their buds---
A mad time, a dizzying time,
A frightening time,
The newborn to nature's ennui
When her tender leaves
Bud in the deadness of winter's hoary breath;
A warm week in January or February,
There arrives the Mad Spring
Where the careful naturalist
Observes Mother Nature
Peeping open her weary eyes
For just a short peak,
And then the Jack Frost comes
And that Sandman puts the sleepies
Back under her eyes.


Yet, the newborn to nature's ennui
Will be frightened by this madness,
For it seems like spring is a month early.
Do not fear.
















Friendship

Mr. Emerson, I have read and quaffed deep
Of the passion that you describe.
What more is there to say?
Exuberant, friendship is deep;
The balance between amity and animosity
Is what strikes me most in your essay.
Who has said it better?
I cannot. Surely...

Friends are knitted to each others' souls,
And if undone, the threads pull away
And a hole is left in their garments.
Yet, the knitter knows to do so
In order to strengthen the fabric once more.
If the seam was imperfect the first, second, or third time,
The tailor knits it anew.


For, friends leave, sometimes the distance of five years;
For a bitter fight, for a bitter antagonism,
For a harsh word, a harsh syllable,
A slur, a comment or nasty degree.
And like church discipline,
This absence of the fellowship grows patience
Within the heart of a man;
To reflect and learn how not to injure.
For, in the absence, the friends come together
After years of repose, new men
Yet the old men, and congregate
To find the roots of their friendships
In tact, and sewn back together
Where the threads were pulled,
The holed extremities seamed,
And then the threads woven once anew
To make a stronger garment,
And to teach a true friend the lesson
Of being a friend:
Which is to listen.




He Gets Us

He Gets Us

I have to tell my dad
That it is true.
Jesus was an alien in Egypt.
Doctrinally, actively,
He Gets Us does the right thing.
AOC calls them fascist
For supporting God's standard for Marriage
And God's Standard for Sex.
I'm amazed at the prudishness of Christians,
And the zealotry of Nonbelievers.
Like Pharisees and Sadducees;
And only a score thousand subscribers
With barely a thousand likes, though millions of views.



That is a good portrait of Christ.
And I think that's why so many reject it.

Who's to judge based on apparel?
Who's to judge based on race?
Who's to oppress the stranger in the land?
Who was the Man Made in God's Flesh?
Who was this Jesus, who Wept
Turned tables in rage,
And told us to humble ourselves like children?
A man jumping over a fence
And a misunderstood metaphor
Are all the "valid" complaints I've seen;
Yet, whose to say those in the photographs are not 
Christians? God will save men and women in every tribe,
Tongue and nation.
Every race, every first creed,
Every ethnicity.


He will save Hindus
And Buddhists,
And Atheists,
And Muslims,
And Protestants,
And Catholics,
And Pagans,
And Heathens,
And Hoodoos,
And Jehovah's Witnesses,
And Rastafarians,
And Uighurs,
And Chinese,
And Arabs,
And Nigerians,
And Argentineans,
And Americans,
And Jews,
And Russians,
And Germans,
And Italians,
And Vietnamese,
And Westerners,
And Easterners,
And Southerners,
And Northerners,
And those from the tropics,
And those from the arctics,
And those in Antarctica,
And those in Sweden,
And Mormons,
And Slavs,
And Anglos,
And Saxons,
And Celtics,
And Africans,
And Asians,
And Ethiopians,
And Sentinelese,
And Pakistanis,
And Aztecs,
And Mayans,
And Romans,
And Gauls,
And Frenchmen,
And Zarmas,
And Alien,
And Domestic,
And Amalekite,
And Amorite,
And Moabite,
And Ammonite,
And Egyptian,
And Babylonian,
And Mede,
And Persian,
And Greek,
And Tyrite,
And Hittite,
And Palestinian,
And Philistine,
And Ephraimite,
And Mannasite,
And Jebusite,
And Canaanite,
And Iroquois,
And Cantonese,
And Shinto,
And Zoroaster,
And Chileans,
And Colombians,
And Mongols,
And Huns,
And Ottomans,
And Turks,
And Sikhs,
And Basques,
And Hadzabes,
And Pacific Islanders,
And Amish,
And Pygmies,
And Jarawas,
And Aborigines,
And Lost Tribes in New Guineas,
And Vanuatus,
And Apaches,
And Cherokees,
And Pequots,
And Native Americans,
And Txapanawas,
And Tlaxcalans,
And Tuscanese,
And Cempoalas,
 And Koreans,
And Tibetans,
And Bedouins,
And Voodoos,
And Numidians,
And Fulanis,
And from all Tribes and Tongues,
And Visigoths,
And Ostrogoths,
And Goths,
And Normans,
And Thanes,
And Danes,
And Swedes,
And Simbas,
And Yanomamis,
And Asmats,
And LGBTQAI2+...
And yet there are as many more nations,
As there are pages in an Encyclopedia's volume;
Past, Present, and Future.

There is no man,
Of any race, creed, ethnicity or gender,
Who of a nation will not be saved.
The elect, from every tribe, tongue and nation,
Will they come, in repentance,
At the foot of Jesus and the Cross.



Without Christ

If there were no Christ,
There would be no churches.
If there were no Christ,
There would be no agape love.
There would be no sacrificial bond
Between man and his brethren,
For men would only know to love themselves.
If there were no Christ,
The world would be worshiping Quetzalcoatl;
Ripping human hearts in anarchy,
And eating manflesh on every table.
China would still have its philosophies,
But, how could it win against such an advanced civilization
As the Aztecs? It couldn't.
If there were no Christ,
There'd still be wars; for, most of Europe's wars
Were due to territorial disputes, and religion only a pretext.
If there were no Christ, 
There'd still be famines---probably more,
As science was Christianity's invention
Whom, trying to find order in the cosmos
We set out to find the very face of God.
If there were no Christ,
There'd probably be Pagan Rome, somewhere,
Its leaders looking like African Shaman,
And bone jewelry infused into their skulls;
It'd probably be the cult of Death,
A merging of Roman hedonism
With Aztec blood ritual;
Gladiatorial games, rape, homicide, catamites
Would probably be common, everyday hobbies.
If there were no Christ, 
China and Rome would have probably went to war,
In a major conflict, and the World Wars
Would have been American Natives,
In their advanced state, sailing across the Atlantic
And Pacific, landing on those shores,
And invading dilapidated Rome. Perhaps the Samurai in Japan
Or the Legions in China could abade them.
Perhaps they couldn't. But, mingled with the comforts
Of potato charged lamps, and aqueducts,
But also cannibalism, rape, orgiastic sex,
Loveless romances, and undefined genders
Morphing into a confused daze, and a drastic population reduction.
If there were no Christ, nor any wars fought by Christians,
The world would have a certain kind of peace,
Which wouldn't actually be a peace,
But would be every man set against his neighbor,
In grotesque body modifications which make a man look like a devil,
With human sacrifice, and murder as entertainment.
Nor, without Christ, most of all,
There could be no heaven or hell.
And without either, men would cease to be judged,
And thereby, no one could cite all of these evils
As being such; it would be the state of humanity
That in peace, there would only be bloodshed;
A peace built on serial murder, rape and cannibalism.





Don't Be Poets

Don't be poets.
I think the violet sky came from Hank Sr.;
I pulled the plot of Hercules for a poem,
And several hundred others I stole from the ether
Of common myths.
My greatest Trilogy,
The main idea is Ecclesiastes';
Pulled from Star Wars Prequels,
Star Ship Troopers,
The Matrix,
And Black Hawk Down.
I did invent my technologies,
But other poets have found them before.
My Space Opera,
I learned about the concepts of space travel on Mass Effect.
My tall cities I found in The New Jerusalem.
Logos, it comes from Montaigne, 
Lao Tsu, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
My concept of Love?
I found it first,
But Plato found it before even me.
I craved Neoclassical while reading Wordsworth,
Finding, after having written it,
That Spencer and Milton had pioneered it before me;
It turns out, Romanticism was a movement
Which rejected Neoclassicalism.
Context Clues, 6th Grade English Classes with Ms. K___
And Textbooks about Critical Thinking
Inspired my out of the box---
Is it?---thinking.
Tech-Ed fascinated me with Maglevs
Western History and Econ and Gov
Inspired me to write civilizations,
Humanities and Western History 
Inspired me as a classicist 
Conversations with friends and family
Were ripped from real life,
And put verbatim into my novels and poems.
A thousand paintings inspired my visualizations.
A thousand movies and CGI inspired my imagism.
Animes inspired my storytelling.
Reveries about Nuclear Fusion and working security at a Logistics Company
Inspired my Skiffs, Skilds and five kilometer long boats.
Mythology, the bare bones of plot, archetype,
I simply take them, and stitch them together
Battling Arthur and Charlemagne
With Thor and Athena.
A thousand Edutainment videos
Would create verisimilitude...
Teach me... and a thousand books, too.
Shaka's Horns, Loin and Chest,
Jerusalem's Siege---
Oh, and the Bible!
A thousand allusions 
Interpolations,
A thousand neurons created
From a thousand symbols
Ancient and novel;
From mythology,
From history,
From Theology.
Every history I read was fuel;
Every modern event;
Every encyclopedia article.
Euclid inspired my knowledge of objectivity---
And the circle's formula, πd=c.
E=MC^2 inspired me
So did musings on time travel---
From where did they come?
Men in Black, Terminator,
Back to the Future;
The very equation Einstein created
Was used to calculate my CNP.

I created the future---
But it all came from the past.
That is why you do not want to be a poet.

Where was there even one, single,
Original thought?


















The Day the Christians Learned

The day the Christians learned...
Their pastors do not believe.

It was a violent day.
They, in their scrums,
Pressed the unbelieving 
Heretics against the wall.
Gasping for air, being crushed against all the weight,
You could hear the pastors drawing their final breath.
I and my pa tried to  stop them;
I don't know if I saved them.
I survived by crossing my arms into a crucifix.

It was like a lemur, divergent,
Being led into a room of her peers.
And the lemurs pinned her against the ground
And pressed, with their hand all over her body.
They pressed.

"It is the natural state of all the beasts
"To do this," said the scholar in school.

I thought Christ's message was to rise above this madness.















John Donne

Loveliest words, from a jaded don,
Like a bottom dweller with fin rot;
You infect your cohorts with vain hopes
And your hopes are foul and sordid.
"Love", have thou tasted of love;
Have thou mined it deeply?
The alchemy of love, the chemical nitre,
Upon the soul, a lofty man
There is, who in precious synapse
Is enthralled by his wife's brain.
Seeing her joy, her passion,
Her dainty color light up her cheeks
Drink deep of it... yet you married for money.
What can you know of love?
What could have you mined from it?
A selfish man, in love with himself
As if he were a god? In what way
Do you know love? What way?
When you are in perfect company
Keeping with yourself?
Let he who does not have it
Tell you what alchemy it is,
To not suffer loneliness in this world
And to bear little fusings of flesh and flesh?
So the person you love, is as much a part of you
As you yourself? What do you know of love?
That you have a poet's conceit,
That since you make the prettiest of words
You know what love is?









Star

Star bright, 10:30 on a winter's night,
Goliath's arm twinkles at peak lumens.
The lazy plane flies under you. 
You brightly twinkle over him.

You will never realize until you do,
That the star shines there, equal in its breadth.











Malcolm X's Conversion

There is good to be had in other faiths.
Malcom X, when arriving at Mecca,
Saw Islam was a religion for all.
And he, from a Black Nationalism
So foul, converted to Sunni Islam.
Yet, the insidious effect of his
Teachings, as a youth, infect our modern
Age, causing brother to hate their brother.
Wars are being fought, all because of him;
Wars which turn his people into villains.
How is any man to atone for it?
If we look at Malcom X, as ourselves,
We will see a similar conundrum. 
That's why we need Christ Jesus.




God Was Not Wrong

Charles, God was not wrong.
Just because homosexuality appears in nature---
So does pedophilia, cannibalism,
Patricide, fratricide, murder, war,
Rape, incest, perpetual struggle
and infanticide---
Does not mean it is to be emulated
By man, or to be upheld that the behavior is good.
We are men. Not beasts.
Homosexuality is a sin
Because it devolves us back into nature's hedonism;
Back into nature's anarchy.
As is clearly being seen, understood now.
We are evolved; we have bitten from the fruit.
We can judge these behaviors are wrong, and foul,
And are among the beasts. Man must rise above
The Sheep of the World, and be Sheep in Christ.




Just Because it Works

Just because it works,
Doesn't mean it's right.

You can lock us up in cages,
Give us a little spinning wheel,
And feed us twice daily;
Sure, we can survive.
But that's called prison.

You can cause most of us to be happy
By coercing us to be gay
By effect of Super Ego,
By convincing us to castrate and mastectomate
Ourselves...
I'd sense no one in this world could feel the deep things I have felt
And have known to be good.

You can allow rape, cannibalism, pedophilia
And yet have all the pleasures of hot baths,
Electricity, slave labor and concubines;
Even the sport of entertainment
Where men will murder one another in the arenas.
I suppose in this world, no one would
Know it is wrong, and be more bestial than human being.

Sure, these things can work.
Sure, you can make the people happy.
It still doesn't make it right.
I would think most of us,
Living right now,
Would have even seen a better world.






Xochipilli 

You are a coruscated crown;
The citizens do flock to the same stalls...
In 1933 the poet sings a song to thee.

Patron of the arts, patron of the flower,
Patron of the games; god of Sodom...

What can we do for thee?
How can we break free from thy tyranny?
You control the world, from Taining lands;
You are a clown ruling a half the world.







How does the poet know? 
Does he wear time on his wrists?
I, the Urn, he sings of me,
Banished and in purgatory.
I sit, listlessly, listening to obdurate church bells...
They have no faith, but worship the Anglican and Catholic God
Xochipilli ;
Am I an artefact? No.

For a short breath of time, this Anarchy reigns,
While David allies with the Avegins. 
And anarchy reigns across the land,
While Xochipilli fiddles to the burning heaps
Of his cities--- for he does not know.






Who am I? I am the Urn with Ashes and Homilies.
Childe Harold is on his pilgrimage;
Oh, how he goes, with his fair haired bride.
Purgatory shall turn to paradise
One day...
And I... I shall go where?
When Sodomite has been made Writ
And man's sinful nature has corrupted even the lambs?
Where shall I go?
This world was not made for me.
So, I rest at peace.









Prince of Persia

O, thou Prince, thou king,
With your black prayers,
You summon forces.
Your god is the forces.
Your prayers hinder prosperity
For the saints, and delay our answers from God.
But, you shall not be victorious.

There is you, thou Covering Cherub,
Dragon, who accuses the flock.
There is you, oh beastial intelligence;
Who hates your Christian brother, and slays him.
There is you, oh diviner, who divines evil
For the LORD's people, when God has promised fortune.
There is you. oh lord of Hades, who denies God
And gainsays His majesty, and brings the ignorant into pits.




Filmer

The riches of the world cease
Save for the kings who rule it.
Adam, eternally recurring,
His divine heritage as King,
Ruler over all flesh...

He drinks the draught
Of rainbow liquor,
And merries his meed
Into the womb of his wife.
Yet, for the world around him,
Their sustenance goes to his belly:
Their wagons, their cotton and wool,
Their games, their arts, their labors
And all their luxurious leisure.



He smacks his lips, and upon them are spices
Numerous: Fenugreek, cinnamon,
Turmeric, Ginger, Onion, Chili,
Clove Garlic and pickled Ginger, fried in Cottonseed Oil, 
Mint, Cilantro, whisked together with cream.
The tinge of clam broth,
The decadence of scallop and crabmeat,
A pound of Roasted Beef, salted and cooked
To its decadent perfection,
Suckling pork dusted with sugar and salt,
Lamb liver fried in mint, cinnamon and  cumin.

He plucks his grape from the bowl,
His strawberry, his banana and apple,
His pomegranate, mango and melon---
While he eats, and takes, and consumes,
The people around him wane into poverty.
For, his magisterial justice cares only
To feed himself--- his Judges allow him
The sustenance of virginal flowers.
His law his his own belly.

He picks up his wine, cherry and deep,
And drinks, tasting the oak upon his food;
The sweet grape accenting his yams and potatoes
Delicately pureed with butter, salt, and cream;
And his expertly crafted steak shall hint of grape berry.
The men and women around him starve, though.
Their work feeds him--- and he exacts all their taxes.
He does not care, for he wishes it to be so.
So he can incur God's wrath,
And see if the sun truly will darken.
To see if the stars truly do fall.
To see if the moon truly will turn to blood.




Boniface VIII

Alain de Lille, he preaches his homilies
Against Sodom and Gomorrah. 
Yet, the peoples still do not listen.
There, they frolic like in the Garden of Earthly Delights.

One in forty thousand googleplex.

O, Philip, tax the clergy!
Boniface orders his vain bulls.
Dungeons, chains, torture,
Boniface dies from his wounds.

Not a perfect man,
A man, who like Odysseus,
Used a Trojan Bull to commit pogrom.

One in forty thousand googleplex.

The Pope's dictum is ignored, though,
And the nations, against Papal decree,
Enter into One hundred years of war.
So follows with it that Ashen Death.

One in forty thousand googleplex

Is the probability of life originating
On this planet through means of evolution.











My greatest regret is 
		not listening
		chasing my dreams
		being thirty-three and nothing.
		
		What is wisdom if I have no audience to 
		share it with? 











	





	I was that fool who believed in Universal truth. But, no atheist I ever knew was like minded. But, I found God was. So I converted. 





















ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Author’s Bio:

	Brandon Neifert is the author of books including In Defense of the Story, a crowning achievement of autodidactism; My Collected Writings, a medley of various writings on diverse topics; and, The Fifth Angel’s Trumpet, an epic novel starring a rowdy maverick colonel caught between a devastating, fifth world war and the love of his life. Neifert is a self educated, self published writer, who, much like his characters, strives for the moral best in both himself and society. A devoted Christian, Neifert was born-again when confronted with a sin from his adolescence that ultimately led to his confession and incarceration as an adult. Neifert has a colorful past, but makes up for it with his scrupulous observations of the human condition, framing both good and evil in ways that even the most skeptical can agree.

Aphorisms

Aphorism 1. The sage of the East could only find meaning in suffering. There I have found none.

Aphorism 2. The meaning of life is simple. It is to love someone else.

Aphorism 3. The Greatest Psychiatrist, his simple theory was that people need to love another.

Aphorism 4. On the shield of Achilles were the sacraments of peace. For war must sometimes be fought so peace can be enjoyed.

Aphorism 5. For the crime of adultery was a war fought; in the end, it was fought to defend the right of the married.

Aphorism 6. There is truth.

Aphorism 7. The most brilliant mind in history believed all things would relate back to chemistry.

Aphorism 8. I believe in God because what choice have I without Him?

Aphorism 9. The poet once sung a song about how sin was life's spice---I agree, yet only when those sins are in season.

Aphorism 10. A nation without Christ's law is a nation that has no joy.

Aphorism 11. The Chemical man is destined to perish.

Aphorism 12. "It is written in the DNA!", yet Christ can remove what's written or add to it all the same.

Aphorism 13. A man pursues, and a woman accepts him.

Aphorism 14. The delinquent child sees every fault in a man.

Aphorism 15. Book burning starts with offense.

Aphorism 16. The rich are protected by their wealth from consequences.

Aphorism 17. Stories are dreams, and like all dreams they have a moral.

Aphorism 18. If one doubts their God because of the Garden of Eden, they do not understand omnipotence.

Aphorism 19.  If science is a stumbling block to faith, then it was a faith built on faulty understanding.

Aphorism 20. I believe in God because I observe there is moral certainty.

Aphorism 21. I believe in Jesus because His morals are certain.

Aphorism 22. What is sweeter than honey and has a heart more courageous than a lion's? One who loves.

Aphorism 23. Justice is imperfect. But without it, there can be nothing just.

Aphorism 24. A man's greatest virtue is his greatest vice---a kind man knows this, so is humble toward others.

Aphorism 25. When reading is a mirror, it is not a message.

Aphorism 26. Do not be the scholar who scoffs at Michelangelo.

Aphorism 27. It, is, sentimental to want to free slaves.

Aphorism 28.  In a world where good is not logical, it must fall back to how you feel.

Aphorism 29. The Fruit of Knowledge was a pomegranate , not an apple. Does this pedantic piece of information make a difference?

Aphorism 30. It was once said to me an apple was the fruit of knowledge because of its complex genetic code; I'd say that person was absolutely right.

Aphorism 31. Societies dictate mores. They do not dictate morals.

Aphorism 32. Eating a fella was heartily approved of in some advanced cultures. It makes you think about what things we get wrong.

Aphorism 33. If a law makes what's right wrong, or what's wrong right, it ought not be followed.

Aphorism 34. The great novelists wanted real life in fiction, until now we have made real life into its own fiction.

Aphorism 35. Where before emotions were realistic in art, now violence is realistic in art.

Aphorism 36. There is nothing certain, but a leap of faith.

Aphorism 37. In a silly way, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division explain everything in this world.

Aphorism 38. The Irish have luck. The Germans have will. Success is a balance of both these things.

Aphorism 39.  A healthy man is the one who seeks the welfare of others over himself.

Aphorism 40. The reason Confucianism works is that its core tenet is "Honor thy Father."

Aphorism 41. History is written by the multitudes who choose a man to lead them.

Aphorism 42. Strange disputes are caused by a warped logos.

Aphorism 43. The logos is the commonly understood truth.

Aphorism 44. In the poet's epic, Satan used knowledge to cause doubt; yet, we ought to fundamentally know what is good and dispel it.

Aphorism 45. gods were metaphors to Pagans; this does not suffice as a reason for me to believe in them.

Aphorism 46.  If the enumeration of the constitution are protected from other rights, then why does an employer get to discriminate against me based on my free speech?

Aphorism 47. Thou shalt not murder and thou shalt not rape are not the only morals.

Aphorism 48. A man guilty of all blood has no chance of ever becoming good, should his crimes stay fettered to him. 

Aphorism 49. Truth is not whatever we think. Truth is what two people have independently stumbled upon without knowledge of the another.

Aphorism 50. It is the right of the governed to be served by those governing them. Not the other way around.

Aphorisms

Aphorism 1. The sage of the East could only find meaning in suffering. There I have found none.

Aphorism 2. The meaning of life is simple. It is to love someone else.

Aphorism 3. The Greatest Psychiatrist, his simple theory was that people need to love another.

Aphorism 4. On the shield of Achilles were the sacraments of peace. For war must sometimes be fought so peace can be enjoyed.

Aphorism 5. For the crime of adultery was a war fought; in the end, it was fought to defend the right of the married.

Aphorism 6. There is truth.

Aphorism 7. The most brilliant mind in history believed all things would relate back to chemistry.

Aphorism 8. I believe in God because what choice have I without Him?

Aphorism 9. The poet once sung a song about how sin was life's spice---I agree, yet only when those sins are in season.

Aphorism 10. A nation without Christ's law is a nation that has no joy.

Aphorism 11. The Chemical man is destined to perish.

Aphorism 12. "It is written in the DNA!", yet Christ can remove what's written or add to it all the same.

Aphorism 13. A man pursues, and a woman accepts him.

Aphorism 14. The delinquent child sees every fault in a man.

Aphorism 15. Book burning starts with offense.

Aphorism 16. The rich are protected by their wealth from consequences.

Aphorism 17. Stories are dreams, and like all dreams they have a moral.

Aphorism 18. If one doubts their God because of the Garden of Eden, they do not understand omnipotence.

Aphorism 19.  If science is a stumbling block to faith, then it was a faith built on faulty understanding.

Aphorism 20. I believe in God because I observe there is moral certainty.

Aphorism 21. I believe in Jesus because His morals are certain.

Aphorism 22. What is sweeter than honey and has a heart more courageous than a lion's? One who loves.

Aphorism 23. Justice is imperfect. But without it, there can be nothing just.

Aphorism 24. A man's greatest virtue is his greatest vice---a kind man knows this, so is humble toward others.

Aphorism 25. When reading is a mirror, it is not a message.