gospel of boke: DAY {3/14} 23-33/154 [871-881]

BOKE / GOB

RHETORICAL VERSE IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FORM
154 SONNETS IN 14 DAYS 'ROUND CHRISTMAS 2003
(COMPOSED 15-28 DEC 2003 / 11 SONNETS PER DAY)
BOKE INDEX

by BOKE

gospel of boke
(154-sonnet collage/sequence)

DAY {3/14}
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A POSTMODERN/RHETORICAL ADVENTURE THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FORM

GOSPEL OF BOKE {23 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_23_01}   THE BULLSHIT-EATER SONG? Boke strums a chord
{GOB_23_02}   on his guitar, mid-morning -- he can't sleep.
{GOB_23_03}   Tonight, of course, he'll pick up where the Lord
{GOB_23_04}   and him left off -- but now the silly sheep ...

{GOB_23_05}   .. who eat Bush bullshit make Boke lose all hope.
{GOB_23_06}   You cannot sing a sonnet, but Boke tries:
{GOB_23_07}   "HEY bullshit-eaters, listen to the Pope --
{GOB_23_08}   he's dumb about some things, but some things wise.

{GOB_23_09}   What's that? They didn't put him on TV
{GOB_23_10}   when he was rapping superpower sins.
{GOB_23_11}   Preemptive war -- Dumb Dubya's policy.
{GOB_23_12}   We had no chance to shout out our Amens."

{GOB_23_13}   We need a chorus: "Bullshit-eaters stink ...
{GOB_23_14}   ... and Paris Hilton's bottom's mighty pink."

GOSPEL OF BOKE {24 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_24_01}   THE LORD SAYS, "Boke, put that guitar away.
{GOB_24_02}   Your gift is not for singing -- Can't you tell?"
{GOB_24_03}   "Yes, Lord, I know. So, sadly, I will lay
{GOB_24_04}   this guitar down this morning ... GO TO HELL!

{GOB_24_05}   Just kidding, Lord, but you put this guitar
{GOB_24_06}   into my hands for something -- Don't you know?"
{GOB_24_07}   "So Boke would be a country superstar?"
{GOB_24_08}   "A smartass God, just what I need. Oh no! ...

{GOB_24_09}   ... No country -- but the Dixie Chicks -- for me."
{GOB_24_10}   No dumbass patriots so scared of death
{GOB_24_11}   they blaspheme Jesus, ' Killing makes us free. '
{GOB_24_12}   Their songs smell strong of Satan's bullshit breath."

{GOB_24_13}   GOD SAYS: "The Chicks apologized." "That's right,
{GOB_24_14}   yeah, screw 'em! ... Um, I mean, Lord, like a light."

GOSPEL OF BOKE {25 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_25_01}   "GO BACK TO SLEEP, BOKE. Rest, then we'll begin
{GOB_25_02}   another chapter of your gospel book."
{GOB_25_03}   "Yes, Lord, I'm tired -- so hard to never sin."
{GOB_25_04}   God smiles and tucks Boke in. One good-dad look, ...

{GOB_25_05}   ... then off to heaven where an angel sings
{GOB_25_06}   much higher than sweet Boke will ever reach.
{GOB_25_07}   God spared him the temptation music brings
{GOB_25_08}   to sing one song forever. "He must teach ...

{GOB_25_09}   ... in Boke's strange, special way that does not loop
{GOB_25_10}   the same words ev'ry night -- forever flows
{GOB_25_11}   in rivers meant to wash away the poop
{GOB_25_12}   before it's turned to "everybody knows" ...

{GOB_25_13}   ... before the bullshit-eaters chomp it down.
{GOB_25_14}   God hums a chorus ... "What else rhymes with brown?"

GOSPEL OF BOKE {26 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_26_01}   BOKE DREAMS: The Soggy Bottom Boys and Girl
{GOB_26_02}   are singing acapella as he floats
{GOB_26_03}   on pony-back as all his sails unfurl.
{GOB_26_04}   Boke thinks: I hope somebody's taking notes ...

{GOB_26_05}   ... 'cause dreams can fade away before the dawn.
{GOB_26_06}   He sees an angel smile. She's jotting down
{GOB_26_07}   his stream of consciousness as he is drawn
{GOB_26_08}   along the flow where God is rhyming brown.

{GOB_26_09}   He does not hold the till, but still his soul
{GOB_26_10}   selects among the choices God provides
{GOB_26_11}   for him among the channels near the shoal
{GOB_26_12}   Christ made to keep the devil's darker tides ...

{GOB_26_13}   ... at bay. As Boke lies sleeping in sweet dreams
{GOB_26_14}   where God empowers all their crazy schemes.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {27 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_27_01}   "THE WOMAN AT THE WELL," God's hand has scrawled
{GOB_27_02}   across Boke's legal pad, and then three dots.
{GOB_27_03}   "OK," says Boke, quite clearly unenthralled
{GOB_27_04}   with Sunday-School rehashing all the plots ...

{GOB_27_05}   ... that ev'rybody knows who lived to tell
{GOB_27_06}   of children's church -- who've got what there's to get.
{GOB_27_07}   IT'S SIX O'CLOCK PM AT JACOB'S WELL
{GOB_27_08}   SAMARIA: Christ sits where people let ...

{GOB_27_09}   ... their buckets down. A woman comes. Christ speaks:
{GOB_27_10}   "Give me to drink." The woman asks: "A Jew
{GOB_27_11}   is asking me, Samaritan? He seeks
{GOB_27_12}   an interaction with me? Jew's don't do ...

{GOB_27_13}   ... no dealing with Samaritans. I'm shocked."
{GOB_27_14}   That's Jesus for you, opening what's locked.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {28 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_28_01}   GOD WHISPERS, "MORE?" OK. THE WELL AT 6 ...
{GOB_28_02}   CHRIST (to the woman): "If you knew the gift
{GOB_28_03}   of God, and who I am and asked -- I'd fix
{GOB_28_04}   you up with LIVING WATER." (Catch my drift?)

{GOB_28_05}   "Sir, you don't have a bucket." (Clearly not.)
{GOB_28_06}   Christ smiles: "If you drink from this well you'll thirst
{GOB_28_07}   again. You'd have to come back here a lot.
{GOB_28_08}   The water I would give ... within will burst ...

{GOB_28_09}   ... in everlasting flow ... Forevermore:
{GOB_28_10}   Eternal life. You int'rested in that?"
{GOB_28_11}   "Yes sir! Give me that water! Nevermore
{GOB_28_12}   to lug a bucket from this well." Christ sat ...

{GOB_28_13}   ... right there and said, "Go call your spouse." The sun-
{GOB_28_14}   light hurt her eyes, "Well sir, I don't have one." {>>>}

GOSPEL OF BOKE {29 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_29_01}   CHRIST SAID: "Thou has well said, I'm husbandless.
{GOB_29_02}   For thou has had five husbands, and the man
{GOB_29_03}   you're living with is not. That's not a guess."
{GOB_29_04}   "I see you are a prophet," she began ...

{GOB_29_05}   ... explaining that her people "worshipped in
{GOB_29_06}   this mountain. But for Jews, Jerusalem
{GOB_29_07}   is where men ought to worship with their kin."
{GOB_29_08}   THEN JESUS SAID: "Believe me, time will come ...

{GOB_29_09}   ... when mountain or Jerusalem is not
{GOB_29_10}   for worshipping the Father the right place.
{GOB_29_11}   You don't know what you worship. Jews have got
{GOB_29_12}   a firm conception -- wrongly, in this case.

{GOB_29_13}   God is a spirit. You must worship him
{GOB_29_14}   in spirit and in truth." (Time for a hymn.)

GOSPEL OF BOKE {30 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_30_01}   LET'S STAND AND SING THESE VERSES though we can't
{GOB_30_02}   sing sonnets very well, but anyway ...
{GOB_30_03}   "THANK GOD FOR MYSTERIES that can't be rant
{GOB_30_04}   like ten-commandment certainties men say ...

{GOB_30_05}   ... while executing sentences of death.
{GOB_30_06}   THANK GOD FOR STRANGENESS we can't comprehend.
{GOB_30_07}   [Pentameter's too long for pop-stars' breath.]
{GOB_30_08}   Before they wrote God's words, the clear they'd bend ...

{GOB_30_09}   ... to fit earth-bound morality. That's why
{GOB_30_10}   Christ spoke in parables. And, odder yet,
{GOB_30_11}   hard saying that offend all Apple-Pie
{GOB_30_12}   Americans who've never really met ...

{GOB_30_13}   ... the Jesus in the Bible -- Just the one
{GOB_30_14}   on TV who most always wears a gun."

GOSPEL OF BOKE {31 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_31_01}   CHRIST'S POSSE was offended He would talk
{GOB_31_02}   with "vile" Samaritans -- but held their tongue.
{GOB_31_03}   If he was really God, a woodshed walk
{GOB_31_04}   might liquify the ice cubes that were flung ...

{GOB_31_05}   ... through that last wormhole, which God's now resealed.
{GOB_31_06}   THE LORD SAYS: "Boke, what are you doing now?"
{GOB_31_07}   "You mean that wormhole? Metaphor concealed
{GOB_31_08}   within a joke. Sweet Lord, don't have a cow!"

{GOB_31_09}   "A purple one?" God says and baps Boke twice --
{GOB_31_10}   But not too hard, because Boke might make sense.
{GOB_31_11}   God's not quite sure, but yet he rolls the dice
{GOB_31_12}   by letting Boke run wild. God's on the fence ...

{GOB_31_13}   ... about the value of Boke's enterprise
{GOB_31_14}   of prophecy dressed up in sonnet's guise.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {32 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_32_01}   A PROPHET has no honor in his home
{GOB_32_02}   or in his country -- best he move around.
{GOB_32_03}   So Christ kept moving -- as Boke hopes to roam;
{GOB_32_04}   ALTHOUGH it could be said Boke's vocal sound ...

{GOB_32_05}   ... is traveling the earth while he sits still
{GOB_32_06}   composing these 154 to bring
{GOB_32_07}   the total to a thousand and fulfill
{GOB_32_08}   requirements for his license. In Beijing ...

{GOB_32_09}   ... some folks are curious how Boke can cure
{GOB_32_10}   their impotence, because they have confused
{GOB_32_11}   "Abundant Branch" dot CN, with the pure
{GOB_32_12}   dot com of boke. (OF COURSE, you are excused ...

{GOB_32_13}   ... from understanding what that gibberish
{GOB_32_14}   is s'pposed to mean. Just eat your bread and fish.)

GOSPEL OF BOKE {33 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_33_01}   THE WOMAN AT THE WELL had little weight
{GOB_33_02}   in social terms, but still she was believed
{GOB_33_03}   enough to lure her townsfolk to the fate
{GOB_33_04}   that's open to believers who'd have grieved ...

{GOB_33_05}   ... a lot if they had missed Christ's coming by.
{GOB_33_06}   They knew that a Messiah would appear.
{GOB_33_07}   So they were ready for this Jesus guy
{GOB_33_08}   and welcomed him -- quite lacking in the fear ...

{GOB_33_09}   ... the Jewish leaders had for rocking boats.
{GOB_33_10}   Yes, Jesus on his pony complicates
{GOB_33_11}   the normal sailing protocol that floats
{GOB_33_12}   the social power structure. That's what hates ...

{GOB_33_13}   ... the coming of a changer of the game.
{GOB_33_14}   Don't blame the Jews -- "the social" is to blame.

DAY {3/14}
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	GOSPEL OF BOKE {23 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_23_01} THE BULLSHIT-EATER SONG? Boke strums a chord {GOB_23_02} on his guitar, mid-morning -- he can't sleep. {GOB_23_03} Tonight, of course, he'll pick up where the Lord {GOB_23_04} and him left off -- but now the silly sheep ... {GOB_23_05} .. who eat Bush bullshit make Boke lose all hope. {GOB_23_06} You cannot sing a sonnet, but Boke tries: {GOB_23_07} "HEY bullshit-eaters, listen to the Pope -- {GOB_23_08} he's dumb about some things, but some things wise. {GOB_23_09} What's that? They didn't put him on TV {GOB_23_10} when he was rapping superpower sins. {GOB_23_11} Preemptive war -- Dumb Dubya's policy. {GOB_23_12} We had no chance to shout out our Amens." {GOB_23_13} We need a chorus: "Bullshit-eaters stink ... {GOB_23_14} ... and Paris Hilton's bottom's mighty pink."

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {24 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_24_01} THE LORD SAYS, "Boke, put that guitar away. {GOB_24_02} Your gift is not for singing -- Can't you tell?" {GOB_24_03} "Yes, Lord, I know. So, sadly, I will lay {GOB_24_04} this guitar down this morning ... GO TO HELL! {GOB_24_05} Just kidding, Lord, but you put this guitar {GOB_24_06} into my hands for something -- Don't you know?" {GOB_24_07} "So Boke would be a country superstar?" {GOB_24_08} "A smartass God, just what I need. Oh no! ... {GOB_24_09} ... No country -- but the Dixie Chicks -- for me." {GOB_24_10} No dumbass patriots so scared of death {GOB_24_11} they blaspheme Jesus, ' Killing makes us free. ' {GOB_24_12} Their songs smell strong of Satan's bullshit breath." {GOB_24_13} GOD SAYS: "The Chicks apologized." "That's right, {GOB_24_14} yeah, screw 'em! ... Um, I mean, Lord, like a light."

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {25 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_25_01} "GO BACK TO SLEEP, BOKE. Rest, then we'll begin {GOB_25_02} another chapter of your gospel book." {GOB_25_03} "Yes, Lord, I'm tired -- so hard to never sin." {GOB_25_04} God smiles and tucks Boke in. One good-dad look, ... {GOB_25_05} ... then off to heaven where an angel sings {GOB_25_06} much higher than sweet Boke will ever reach. {GOB_25_07} God spared him the temptation music brings {GOB_25_08} to sing one song forever. "He must teach ... {GOB_25_09} ... in Boke's strange, special way that does not loop {GOB_25_10} the same words ev'ry night -- forever flows {GOB_25_11} in rivers meant to wash away the poop {GOB_25_12} before it's turned to "everybody knows" ... {GOB_25_13} ... before the bullshit-eaters chomp it down. {GOB_25_14} God hums a chorus ... "What else rhymes with brown?"

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {26 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_26_01} BOKE DREAMS: The Soggy Bottom Boys and Girl {GOB_26_02} are singing acapella as he floats {GOB_26_03} on pony-back as all his sails unfurl. {GOB_26_04} Boke thinks: I hope somebody's taking notes ... {GOB_26_05} ... 'cause dreams can fade away before the dawn. {GOB_26_06} He sees an angel smile. She's jotting down {GOB_26_07} his stream of consciousness as he is drawn {GOB_26_08} along the flow where God is rhyming brown. {GOB_26_09} He does not hold the till, but still his soul {GOB_26_10} selects among the choices God provides {GOB_26_11} for him among the channels near the shoal {GOB_26_12} Christ made to keep the devil's darker tides ... {GOB_26_13} ... at bay. As Boke lies sleeping in sweet dreams {GOB_26_14} where God empowers all their crazy schemes.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {27 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_27_01} "THE WOMAN AT THE WELL," God's hand has scrawled {GOB_27_02} across Boke's legal pad, and then three dots. {GOB_27_03} "OK," says Boke, quite clearly unenthralled {GOB_27_04} with Sunday-School rehashing all the plots ... {GOB_27_05} ... that ev'rybody knows who lived to tell {GOB_27_06} of children's church -- who've got what there's to get. {GOB_27_07} IT'S SIX O'CLOCK PM AT JACOB'S WELL {GOB_27_08} SAMARIA: Christ sits where people let ... {GOB_27_09} ... their buckets down. A woman comes. Christ speaks: {GOB_27_10} "Give me to drink." The woman asks: "A Jew {GOB_27_11} is asking me, Samaritan? He seeks {GOB_27_12} an interaction with me? Jew's don't do ... {GOB_27_13} ... no dealing with Samaritans. I'm shocked." {GOB_27_14} That's Jesus for you, opening what's locked.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {28 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_28_01} GOD WHISPERS, "MORE?" OK. THE WELL AT 6 ... {GOB_28_02} CHRIST (to the woman): "If you knew the gift {GOB_28_03} of God, and who I am and asked -- I'd fix {GOB_28_04} you up with LIVING WATER." (Catch my drift?) {GOB_28_05} "Sir, you don't have a bucket." (Clearly not.) {GOB_28_06} Christ smiles: "If you drink from this well you'll thirst {GOB_28_07} again. You'd have to come back here a lot. {GOB_28_08} The water I would give ... within will burst ... {GOB_28_09} ... in everlasting flow ... Forevermore: {GOB_28_10} Eternal life. You int'rested in that?" {GOB_28_11} "Yes sir! Give me that water! Nevermore {GOB_28_12} to lug a bucket from this well." Christ sat ... {GOB_28_13} ... right there and said, "Go call your spouse." The sun- {GOB_28_14} light hurt her eyes, "Well sir, I don't have one." {>>>}

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {29 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_29_01} CHRIST SAID: "Thou has well said, I'm husbandless. {GOB_29_02} For thou has had five husbands, and the man {GOB_29_03} you're living with is not. That's not a guess." {GOB_29_04} "I see you are a prophet," she began ... {GOB_29_05} ... explaining that her people "worshipped in {GOB_29_06} this mountain. But for Jews, Jerusalem {GOB_29_07} is where men ought to worship with their kin." {GOB_29_08} THEN JESUS SAID: "Believe me, time will come ... {GOB_29_09} ... when mountain or Jerusalem is not {GOB_29_10} for worshipping the Father the right place. {GOB_29_11} You don't know what you worship. Jews have got {GOB_29_12} a firm conception -- wrongly, in this case. {GOB_29_13} God is a spirit. You must worship him {GOB_29_14} in spirit and in truth." (Time for a hymn.)

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {30 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_30_01} LET'S STAND AND SING THESE VERSES though we can't {GOB_30_02} sing sonnets very well, but anyway ... {GOB_30_03} "THANK GOD FOR MYSTERIES that can't be rant {GOB_30_04} like ten-commandment certainties men say ... {GOB_30_05} ... while executing sentences of death. {GOB_30_06} THANK GOD FOR STRANGENESS we can't comprehend. {GOB_30_07} [Pentameter's too long for pop-stars' breath.] {GOB_30_08} Before they wrote God's words, the clear they'd bend ... {GOB_30_09} ... to fit earth-bound morality. That's why {GOB_30_10} Christ spoke in parables. And, odder yet, {GOB_30_11} hard saying that offend all Apple-Pie {GOB_30_12} Americans who've never really met ... {GOB_30_13} ... the Jesus in the Bible -- Just the one {GOB_30_14} on TV who most always wears a gun."

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {31 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_31_01} CHRIST'S POSSE was offended He would talk {GOB_31_02} with "vile" Samaritans -- but held their tongue. {GOB_31_03} If he was really God, a woodshed walk {GOB_31_04} might liquify the ice cubes that were flung ... {GOB_31_05} ... through that last wormhole, which God's now resealed. {GOB_31_06} THE LORD SAYS: "Boke, what are you doing now?" {GOB_31_07} "You mean that wormhole? Metaphor concealed {GOB_31_08} within a joke. Sweet Lord, don't have a cow!" {GOB_31_09} "A purple one?" God says and baps Boke twice -- {GOB_31_10} But not too hard, because Boke might make sense. {GOB_31_11} God's not quite sure, but yet he rolls the dice {GOB_31_12} by letting Boke run wild. God's on the fence ... {GOB_31_13} ... about the value of Boke's enterprise {GOB_31_14} of prophecy dressed up in sonnet's guise.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {32 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_32_01} A PROPHET has no honor in his home {GOB_32_02} or in his country -- best he move around. {GOB_32_03} So Christ kept moving -- as Boke hopes to roam; {GOB_32_04} ALTHOUGH it could be said Boke's vocal sound ... {GOB_32_05} ... is traveling the earth while he sits still {GOB_32_06} composing these 154 to bring {GOB_32_07} the total to a thousand and fulfill {GOB_32_08} requirements for his license. In Beijing ... {GOB_32_09} ... some folks are curious how Boke can cure {GOB_32_10} their impotence, because they have confused {GOB_32_11} "Abundant Branch" dot CN, with the pure {GOB_32_12} dot com of boke. (OF COURSE, you are excused ... {GOB_32_13} ... from understanding what that gibberish {GOB_32_14} is s'pposed to mean. Just eat your bread and fish.)

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {33 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_33_01} THE WOMAN AT THE WELL had little weight {GOB_33_02} in social terms, but still she was believed {GOB_33_03} enough to lure her townsfolk to the fate {GOB_33_04} that's open to believers who'd have grieved ... {GOB_33_05} ... a lot if they had missed Christ's coming by. {GOB_33_06} They knew that a Messiah would appear. {GOB_33_07} So they were ready for this Jesus guy {GOB_33_08} and welcomed him -- quite lacking in the fear ... {GOB_33_09} ... the Jewish leaders had for rocking boats. {GOB_33_10} Yes, Jesus on his pony complicates {GOB_33_11} the normal sailing protocol that floats {GOB_33_12} the social power structure. That's what hates ... {GOB_33_13} ... the coming of a changer of the game. {GOB_33_14} Don't blame the Jews -- "the social" is to blame.