Easter Everywhere

Do you have eyes of flesh?
Do you see as a mortal sees?
~Job 10:4

Stroboscopica

Those who are wise will shine 

like the brightness of the heavens, 

and those who lead many to righteousness, 

like the stars for ever and ever.

~ Daniel 12:3

Fuck All The Perfect People

Moses replied to the Lord,

 "If the Israelites did not listen to me, 

then how will Pharaoh listen to me, 

since I speak with difficulty?"

~Exodus 6:12

Jerry's Pigeons Are Above Us All

Now the Lord God 

had formed out of the ground

 all the wild animals 

and all the birds in the sky. 

He brought them to the man

 to see what he would name them; 

and whatever the man called each living creature, 

that was its name.

~Genesis 2:19

Christmas Time Is Here Again

He sent them to Bethlehem and said, 

“Go and search carefully for the child. 

As soon as you find him, report to me, 

so that I too may go and worship him.”

~ Matthew 2:8

Astral Weeks

Van Morrison ‘Astral Weeks’ is 50

 “Who are these that fly along like clouds, 
like doves to their nests?
~ Isaiah 60:8

Idiot Wind

And when you pray, 

do not keep babbling on like pagans, 

for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

~Matthew 6:7

Kanye West Is Not Picasso

 Fools are put in many high positions.

 ~Ecclesiastes 10:6

This poem appears in Leonard Cohen's posthumous collection, The Flame.

Kanye West is not Picasso
I am Picasso
Kanye West is not Edison
I am Edison
I am Tesla
Jay-Z is not the Dylan of Anything
I am the Dylan of anything
I am the Kanye West of Kanye West
The Kanye West
Of the great bogus shift of bullshit culture
From one boutique to another
I am Tesla
I am his coil
The coil that made electricity soft as a bed
I am the Kanye West Kanye West thinks he is
When he shoves your ass off the stage
I am the real Kanye West
I don’t get around much anymore
I never have
I only come alive after a war
And we have not had it yet

Leonard Cohen March 15, 2015

President Trump praises Kanye West’s words at White House: 

‘That was quite something’

That's How Every Empire Falls

 Nations are in uproar,  

kingdoms fall; 

he lifts his voice, 

the earth melts.

~ Psalm 46:6

Don't Try Suicide

Oksana Shachko (Ukrainian: Оксана Шачко; 31 January 1987 – 23 July 2018)

Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines!”

 Then he pushed with all his might, 

and down came the temple on the rulers 

and all the people in it. 

Thus, he killed many more 

when he died

 than while he lived.

~Judges 16:30

Cutt Off

 Even that it would please God to destroy me; 

that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

~ Job 6:9

Merry Tit-Mouse To You

Let’s go to Bethlehem 

and see this thing that has happened, 

which the Lord has told us about.

~ Luke 2:15

Cockney Rebel

Two rebels were crucified with him, 

one on his right and one on his left.

~  Matthew 27:38

Lucky Like Saint Sebastian

Once upon a time there was a man called Saul
Who persecuted Christians until he saw
The work was bearing fruit for the Christians
So the man changed his opinions and his Christian name to Paul

And he wrote important chapters in the Bible
But the blood on his writing hand reeked to high heaven
And Paul resolved to die

So he wrote to friends in Rome
A senator who owed him a favour
Asking for an executioner
So Paul could make his exit as a martyr
The senator sent this answer:

He said "Should you be so lucky like St Sebastian
Preferring the ache to the aspirin
Swooning as they shoot the arrows
Through your narrow chest
Stripping naked in the Circus Maximus
With a martyr-eating lioness
Bartering with flesh for a little pain
Scenes like this give sadomasochism a bad name"

~ Nick Currie "MOMUS"

You Samaritans worship what you do not know; 

we worship what we do know, 

for salvation is from the Jews.

~  John 4:22

Bubbles Burst

Sucked into the vortex.

 

You, Lord God Almighty, 

You who are the God of Israel, 

rouse yourself to punish all the nations; 

show no mercy to wicked traitors.

~  Psalm 59:5

 
Trump voters got Hillary anyway. 

What a world.

Links:

Trump Dives Into the Deep End of The D.C. Swamp

 

 U.S. ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime’

 

No to Bombing Syria

Rebels Hail U.S. Strike, Syria Says 16 Killed