Canto
XXIII
Gangster
Gospel
Canto XXIII
Petrus Romanus
The Semiotics of God
(The creation of meaning is the meaning of creation)
Then...
I desired to have a relationship with you
And my desire cried out to you
But how could I have a true relationship with you?
I cannot commune with what I cannot know
Though I can see you, feel you and hear you...
I cannot know the extent of the divine intent
That was meant when you went
(Or to whom I should repent during Lent!)
No...
I cannot know your heart (and nor you mine)
Yet this relationship was not premised on knowledge
But by faith divine
Because I can hear your words
I can see your face
I can feel you
And you, me
But is it you that I see?
Or do I believe you for your works' sake?
Is my relationship with the Tree of Life?
Or is it by your fruits
That you are known?
Is there anything else in this Mansion
that evades my perception?
Or has my Perception become my Mansion?
Question...
How can I have a relationship with you
Being as there is nothing else in Existence besides
Your Eternal Word?
Truly, your Word is Life
Your Word is my God and the God of it
The One who is Higher than I
Because Ras Tafari was before I
Worshipped the God whom earth, and sea and sky
Whose shoes I am unfit to untie
Surely your Word has baptized me by its own merit
Unto this old and new and unending You in the Spirit
Time no longer! -- Apocalypse Now!
Wedded by a Sacramental Vow
Of Love, begotten of a Virgin's desire
Marriage with the Spirit, baptized by fire!
Because I desired to have this relationship with You
And my desire cried out
And my cry, You knew
I Am Me (Emma I)
"I am me"
Who else can I be?
Like royalty:
Queen Emma I
But Emma I
Her life is curs'd
Her acts, rehears'd
In speech, well-vers'd
But in the end, it's worst!
So take Emma I
And turn her 'round
And then she'll become
"I am found!"
I Neva Knew
I neva knew
Just how much you
Could love me so true
Thru all we've been thru
What more can I do?
I haven't a clue!
There's no avenue
For me to get to
This picture God drew
That I'd like to view
That I'd like to screw!
And worship anew
The God of the Hebrew
In Christ Jesus who
Hath chosen the few
(And not just the Jew)
But watched as they grew
Each taking their cue
Like a demonic coup
In the blood we saw spew
For what we can't undo
There's no need to be blue
'Sola Spiritu'
So let me review
Why I love you two
Opps, I meant 'too'!
Is that YOU? -- I hear you ask.
Yes and I'm up to the task
Of removing all your doubt
But you need to hear me out
I don't know your hidden pain
Bitter words that raped your brain
I can only tell you this
You've been baptized with a kiss
You've been baptized by my fire
Like a spiritual vampire
Sucking blood from virgin's necks
By a demonic reflex
But the Virgin, she consents
Even though it makes no sense
As her Son, with grace relents
If my Love, from sin repents
C'mon baby light my fire!
Try to set the night on fire!
You're my Venus, my desire!
I'll be damned if I'm a liar
I Ain't No N*gger!!
I ain't no n*gger;
I'm a Tigger.
N*ggers come from the hood;
I am come from 100-acre wood!
N*ggers are depressed;
But Tiggers do what Tiggers do best!
N*ggers drink a 40-ounce;
But all I can do is bounce, bounce, bounce!
So don't call me no n*gger
Or I'll be on you faster than a pooh bear on a jar of honey.
Hu-hu-hu-hoooo!!!
Sgt. Pepper's Dictionary
(where do they all come from?)
wish | expectation | show
cup | hockey trophy | puck
dirt | ground | tread
repel | cast off | leper
wink | turn a blind eye | knew
fink | a back-stabber | knife
killer | take someone else's life | relic
regal | drunk with power | lager
rhyme | rapper's delight | myrrh
rhythm | and blues | mother
aisle | where marriage begins | lie
cry | complain | irk
deacon | church official | naked
deliver | us from evil | reviled
man | person | name
maid | young unmarried woman | dame
male | mystique | lame
self | consciousness | flesh
evil | sin and death | live
devil | evildoer | lived
fall | Paradise Lost | laugh
sausage | is it kosher? | Jesus
church | organized religion | crutch
rood | ancient Anglican crucifix | door
dogma | Catholic tenets | Am God
tribe | ethnic lineage | birth
avid | passionate | diva
leer | lust of the eyes | reel
lust | prurient interest | lust
amor | Latin love | Roma
liber | Latin freedom | rebel
noël | French nativity | léon
Eva | mother of all living | Ave
Eden | the paradise of God | needy
Noise | a tinkling cymbal | Zion
Eliam | Bath-sheba's father | Ammiel
Akhenaten | first monotheist | Tanakh
Allahu Akbar | God is great! | Kabbalah
Am I | my brother's keeper? | I AM
Nemo | ancient submariner | omen
Pequod | they call me Ishmael | Cupid
Wonka | and the chocolate factory | know
Kramden | Gleason's divine comedy | Denmark
Cosmo Kramer | Seinfeld's divine comedy | cosmic remark
raven | nevermore | never
Bethlehem | nativity scene | Lambeth
Xena | Warrior Princess | annex
Sega | Genesis | ages
Devas | Hindu gods | saved
Brahma | Hindu creator | Abraham
Shiva | duplicitous deity | Vishnu
Eros | desirous deity | rose
Medusa | a woman scorned | Sodoma
Agape | sacrificial love | Pagan
Zeus | bringer of joy | Suez
Mars | god of war | arms
Pan am | last flight out of Saigon | napalm
shogun | Japanese warlord | gung ho
Asshur | brother of Elam | Russia
Gideon's army | holy warriors | Armageddon
Judas | Iscariot | Sadducee
scythe | reaper's sickle | ethics
funny | surely, you jest | enough!
Bedsheets
When I awoke, I noticed myself
With the longest, firmest,
mouth-watering erection
But before I could open my eyes
I felt my bedsheets wrapped closely against my body
My penis throbbing uncontrollably amidst the tightly-wrinkled crinkles
That must have somehow shifted during the night
Still groggy,
My head turned slightly on my pillow, when
I suddenly began to feel them move
And then, I realized that
These weren't my sheets, but instead
It was your smooth, perspirous thighs, straddling me
-- rocking and locking
To the primitive choreography,
which had unknowingly become synchronous
With the circadian rhythmic pulsations
That had so fortuitously lulled my cerebral cortex
From its REM state
to state of Pure Ecstasy
Instinctually desiring to acknowledge you,
my ancient succubus
But before I could open my tear-stained eyes
I decided that it would be better not to interrupt you
Maintaining my perfect silence
In order so that you could
Believe that you were...
((cheating on me with my own body))
(In fact,
I still haven't told you...)
And as I lay there motionless
Holding back ecstatic and guttural oblations, made
To the Queen of Heaven made flesh
It dawned on me
That this might not even be you, but instead
An angel
Or perhaps even our adult daughter who was
visiting for spring break
But as long as I didn't know,
God didn't either
Like Lot and his daughters
Judah and Tamar
Pharaoh and Sarai
There was no offence so long as I remained in ignorance
((And what a willing ignorance it was, mama!))
As the Ancient Shekhinah filled the temple
with her fragrant eau d'amour
My heightened consciousness altered by ebbing tides of endorphins
Liberating me from this selfish vow of silence
On the precipice of both verbal and pelvic outburst
The seal of my mouth, breaking
With a plaintive glossolalia
Gushing and blushing
The waters rushing
My blurry eyes adjusting to the darkness of our bedroom
As the glorious shadow
That had enveloped my passion
Within its tightly-crinkled wrinkles
Revealed herself to me as
Nothing more than...
((bedsheets...))
Papa Don't Preach!
Like a female virgin of myself
Opps, I meant 'version'
Or maybe it was the perversion of a pure virgin...
Either way, it doesn't mater
Mater? opps, I meant matter...
Or maybe it was a Mater who matters?
A Material Virgin in a maternal world
But this time, she won't be keeping her baby...
Evita crying -- 'Argentina's truth hurts Anita Negra'
But the truth is, 'I never felt you...
I broke my promise, increased my dissidence'
My mad resistance to your insistence of her existence...
Only to find myself
'in trouble deep!'
Navigation
LORD JESUS CHRIST,SON OF THE FATHER,SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVEIN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVEDFROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,WHO ONCE WAS MARY,BE OUR ADVOCATE.AMEN.
LORD JESUS CHRIST,
SON OF THE FATHER,
SEND NOW YOUR SPIRIT OVER THE EARTH.
LET THE HOLY SPIRIT LIVE
IN THE HEARTS OF ALL NATIONS,
THAT THEY MAY BE PRESERVED
FROM DEGENERATION, DISASTER AND WAR.
MAY THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS,
WHO ONCE WAS MARY,
BE OUR ADVOCATE.
AMEN.
