gospel of boke: DAY {8/14} 78-88/154 [926-936]

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 {8/14}
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A POSTMODERN/RHETORICAL ADVENTURE THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FORM

GOSPEL OF BOKE {78 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_78_01}   CLACK. JESUS RAISES LAZARUS: TAKE 2
{GOB_78_02}   Two sisters (Martha, Mary) send a note
{GOB_78_03}   to Jesus to beseech him: "He that you
{GOB_78_04}   love well, our brother Laz'rus is ... " (they wrote ...

{GOB_78_05}   ... from Bethany, Judaea) " ... deathly ill."
{GOB_78_06}   AS JESUS READ, HE SAID: "Death won't prevail.
{GOB_78_07}   This sickness is for story / Not to kill.
{GOB_78_08}   Illuminate God's Son / A bright detail."

{GOB_78_09}   (As was required for story) CHRIST stayed in
{GOB_78_10}   the town they're in for two days, then said: "Let
{GOB_78_11}   us go into Judaea once again."
{GOB_78_12}   DISCIPLES: "They will stone you! D'you forget?"

{GOB_78_13}   NOW, Jesus first response is never straight.
{GOB_78_14}   Not plain, but paralogic / Plain will wait. {>>>}

GOSPEL OF BOKE {79 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_79_01}   CHRIST GOES: "Aren't there twelve hours in a day?
{GOB_79_02}   A man who walks in daylight does not trip
{GOB_79_03}   because he has the sun{Son!} to light his way.
{GOB_79_04}   But walking in the dark, a man will slip ...

{GOB_79_05}   ... because he has no light inside of him. /
{GOB_79_06}   Dear Lazarus is sleeping, but I'll go
{GOB_79_07}   and wake him." // THE DISCIPLES missed the limb{limn}:
{GOB_79_08}   "Just sleeping!" / "He'll be fine!" / "That's good to know!"

{GOB_79_09}   CHRIST SMILES/SHIFTS paralogic down to plain:
{GOB_79_10}   "He's dead." / I'm glad he is / so you can see
{GOB_79_11}   what happens -- brand belief into your brain.
{GOB_79_12}   In any case it's time to go. SHALL WE?"

{GOB_79_13}   Then THOMAS (nicknamed Didymous) cracked wise:
{GOB_79_14}   "YES, LET'S all go, so EVERYBODY dies!"

GOSPEL OF BOKE {80 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_80_01}   JUDAEA/BETHANY Four days have past
{GOB_80_02}   since Lazarus has died and lain entombed,
{GOB_80_03}   when JESUS and DISCIPLES come at last.
{GOB_80_04}   Two miles away, Jerusalem has bloomed ...

{GOB_80_05}   ... with sympathy, and many Jews are here
{GOB_80_06}   to comfort Laz'rus' family. STAGE SET
{GOB_80_07}   for Laz'rus' resurrection. [More, we fear
{GOB_80_08}   'cause we all know how messy these things get ...

{GOB_80_09}   ... from Buffy's bloody-knuckled casket rent. //
{GOB_80_10}   GOD/LAWYERS SCOWL and so we move along.]
{GOB_80_11}   When MARTHA heard that Jesus came, she went
{GOB_80_12}   to meet Him: "I know you can fix what's wrong...

{GOB_80_13}   ... Whatever You ask God to do, He'll do."
{GOB_80_14}   [SWEET COW MOOS: "Ditto that. I know it's true."]

GOSPEL OF BOKE {81 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_81_01}   (To Martha) JESUS SAYS: "Laz'rus will rise."
{GOB_81_02}   Now, MARTHA, knowing her theology
{GOB_81_03}   (too well, perhaps) says: "Yes Lord, when time flies
{GOB_81_04}   to resurrection day, I know that he ..."

{GOB_81_05}   But JESUS sees she's ' grooving ' in her head:
{GOB_81_06}   "I AM the resurrection and the life.
{GOB_81_07}   He that believes in Me, though he were dead
{GOB_81_08}   yet shall he live and never die ... " [TEXT KNIFE ...

{GOB_81_09}   ... CUTS HERE to not molest the Jesus weave
{GOB_81_10}   with Paris Hilton but blow her a kiss.]
{GOB_81_11}   "... AND WHOSOEVER liveth and believe
{GOB_81_12}   in Me shall never die. / Believe thou this?"

{GOB_81_13}   "Yea, Lord, I do believe you are the Christ,
{GOB_81_14}   the Son of God, who should ..." [THIS SONNET'S SPLICED ...

GOSPEL OF BOKE {82 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_82_01}   ... WITH THIS ONE] "... come into the world." And when
{GOB_82_02}   she had so said, she went her way to ' call '
{GOB_82_03}   to sister Mary ' secretly ' / [By pen?
{GOB_82_04}   By cellphone? King James' writers dropped the ball! ...

{GOB_82_05}   // WHILE BOKE is suff'ring Crisis-of-the-Text,
{GOB_82_06}   THE MONKEY-BOT takes over for awhile ... ]
{GOB_82_07}   SO ... Martha monkey-signed to Mary next:
{GOB_82_08}   "Come here / Son top banana want your smile."

{GOB_82_09}   So Mary go / see Jesus / People see
{GOB_82_10}   her leave her tree / Think grave! / She go / They wrong!
{GOB_82_11}   Same ol' / Same ol' / Confusion! / Up wrong tree!
{GOB_82_12}   No / Mary go / see Jesus /Mary-song:

{GOB_82_13}   "Why Jesus? Why / no come in time / Too late!
{GOB_82_14}   The cow / long gone / four days / Why you / shut gate?

GOSPEL OF BOKE {83 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_83_01}   [GOD SMILES and sends sweet Monkey into space
{GOB_83_02}   in his new flying saucer ... just to play.
{GOB_83_03}   "DEAR BOKE, you must not make a fed'ral case
{GOB_83_04}   of ev'ry text'al blip. Alright?" // "OK."]

{GOB_83_05}   So Mary falls at Jesus' feet and cries.
{GOB_83_06}   And Jews who came with her are crying, too.
{GOB_83_07}   And Jesus, seeing all this weeping, fries
{GOB_83_08}   a circuit somehow in his neural stew ...

{GOB_83_09}   ... of GOD/MAN interchanges ... and He groaned
{GOB_83_10}   in God's own Spirit -- troubled by their grief.
{GOB_83_11}   Their utter faithlessness had now re-zoned
{GOB_83_12}   the Happy Resurrection into BRIEF:

{GOB_83_13}   "How Thoughtless Jesus Let Poor Laz'rus Die."
{GOB_83_14}   Bad Jesus! All we're left to do is cry.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {84 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_84_01}   SWEET COW moos once, and stares at Boke. // What now?
{GOB_84_02}   OK, that may not capture perfectly
{GOB_84_03}   the essence of the moment -- But, Sweet Cow,
{GOB_84_04}   just why that Jesus cries is hard to see.

{GOB_84_05}   SEE: "JESUS WEPT." That's one whole line of verse.
{GOB_84_06}   (Eleventh chapter / John / Verse 35)
{GOB_84_07}   Perhaps from empathy -- or something worse --
{GOB_84_08}   from anger or frustration. Man alive! ...

{GOB_84_09}   ... Or God alive! (Boke squints) It's hard to tell
{GOB_84_10}   what could be going on inside that blend.
{GOB_84_11}   Whatever! / It's not going near as well
{GOB_84_12}   as was expected. Though it might offend ...

{GOB_84_13}   ... the concept of a God you can't surprise.
{GOB_84_14}   But how else to explain Christ's tear-filled eyes.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {85 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_85_01}   "CHRIST WEPT." The greatest mystery of all?
{GOB_85_02}   Or something in his eye / a speck of dust?
{GOB_85_03}   The humanness of Jesus in a ball
{GOB_85_04}   to bounce against the rock of faith and trust.

{GOB_85_05}   THE TIMING: When exactly did he cry?
{GOB_85_06}   "Where have you laid him?" // ANSWER: "Come and see."
{GOB_85_07}   THEN "Jesus wept." / He WEPT? / Why, Jesus, why?
{GOB_85_08}   Is yanking Laz from heaven cruelty? /

{GOB_85_09}   PERHAPS HE KNEW (as God would) when he'd raise
{GOB_85_10}   up Lazarus from death / when there's no doubt
{GOB_85_11}   he was the Son of God -- THIS WOULD NOT PHASE
{GOB_85_12}   THE JEWS who'd double down to take him out.

{GOB_85_13}   HOW DEEP in bullshit must these people be
{GOB_85_14}   to witness THIS / THEN nail Him to a tree?

GOSPEL OF BOKE {86 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_86_01}   "NO MORE WOULD JESUS WALK AMONGST THE JEWS."
{GOB_86_02}   (THE LAZ'RUS RESURRECTION TURNING POINT)
{GOB_86_03}   No parable would bring them to the pews
{GOB_86_04}   of God's Church {2.0}[two-dot-oh] Christ would anoint ...

{GOB_86_05}   ... with His own blood ... / ... but by the hands of MEN
{GOB_86_06}   WHO WERE REQUIRED to kill him in the tale,
{GOB_86_07}   but who STILL disappoint Christ / Who still sin
{GOB_86_08}   by executing plot points that we hail ...

{GOB_86_09}   ... as vict'ry over death in hymns we sing
{GOB_86_10}   in version {2.0}[two-dot-oh] of God's strange plan
{GOB_86_11}   (who's secret codename is "Let Freedom Ring")
{GOB_86_12}   to amplify THE FLOW 'tween GOD and MAN.

{GOB_86_13}   THE PROBLEM that postmodern prophets face
{GOB_86_14}   is fig'ring "how in hell" to make that case.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {87 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_87_01}   A GOSPEL CHOIR STARTS SINGING ... 'cause they know
{GOB_87_02}   just when a song's the only thing to say --
{GOB_87_03}   when preachin's gone as far as it can go
{GOB_87_04}   and music is the only card to play.

{GOB_87_05}   / Have mercy on the preacher / Let him rest /
{GOB_87_06}   / Dear Lord, for we are all most surely filled /
{GOB_87_07}   / The food at home's already been pre-blessed /
{GOB_87_08}   / The church communion wine has done been spilled /

{GOB_87_09}   / Have mercy on the preacher / Make him stop /
{GOB_87_10}   / He's pulled another page out of his coat /
{GOB_87_11}   / Send down an angel, Lord, to make him drop /
{GOB_87_12}   / his peroration / Hope that's all he wrote! /

{GOB_87_13}   (And as the choir is marching off the stage,
{GOB_87_14}   Lyle Lovett's lawyer's callin' 'bout this page.)

GOSPEL OF BOKE {88 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_88_01}   A FEW LIGHT YEARS AWAY a Monkey-bot
{GOB_88_02}   is playing on his cellphone with his tail
{GOB_88_03}   traversing a new monkey-saucer plot
{GOB_88_04}   that God's constructed / Should the Monkey fail ...

{GOB_88_05}   ... the arbitrary mission that this day
{GOB_88_06}   unfolded from a wormhole Boke had lost,
{GOB_88_07}   then God will ask Sweet Cow to hit RE-PLAY
{GOB_88_08}   and not Boke now 'cause he's already sauced ...

{GOB_88_09}   ... for Christmas dinner / browning in a pan
{GOB_88_10}   of his own juice that he's drained all the seeds
{GOB_88_11}   of new adventures starring Raisin Bran
{GOB_88_12}   and Chinese pudding-girl who always needs ...

{GOB_88_13}   ... new batteries / or Monkey might defeat
{GOB_88_14}   her in the game where She and Monkey meet.

DAY {8/14}
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	GOSPEL OF BOKE {78 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_78_01} CLACK. JESUS RAISES LAZARUS: TAKE 2 {GOB_78_02} Two sisters (Martha, Mary) send a note {GOB_78_03} to Jesus to beseech him: "He that you {GOB_78_04} love well, our brother Laz'rus is ... " (they wrote ... {GOB_78_05} ... from Bethany, Judaea) " ... deathly ill." {GOB_78_06} AS JESUS READ, HE SAID: "Death won't prevail. {GOB_78_07} This sickness is for story / Not to kill. {GOB_78_08} Illuminate God's Son / A bright detail." {GOB_78_09} (As was required for story) CHRIST stayed in {GOB_78_10} the town they're in for two days, then said: "Let {GOB_78_11} us go into Judaea once again." {GOB_78_12} DISCIPLES: "They will stone you! D'you forget?" {GOB_78_13} NOW, Jesus first response is never straight. {GOB_78_14} Not plain, but paralogic / Plain will wait. {>>>}

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {79 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_79_01} CHRIST GOES: "Aren't there twelve hours in a day? {GOB_79_02} A man who walks in daylight does not trip {GOB_79_03} because he has the sun{Son!} to light his way. {GOB_79_04} But walking in the dark, a man will slip ... {GOB_79_05} ... because he has no light inside of him. / {GOB_79_06} Dear Lazarus is sleeping, but I'll go {GOB_79_07} and wake him." // THE DISCIPLES missed the limb{limn}: {GOB_79_08} "Just sleeping!" / "He'll be fine!" / "That's good to know!" {GOB_79_09} CHRIST SMILES/SHIFTS paralogic down to plain: {GOB_79_10} "He's dead." / I'm glad he is / so you can see {GOB_79_11} what happens -- brand belief into your brain. {GOB_79_12} In any case it's time to go. SHALL WE?" {GOB_79_13} Then THOMAS (nicknamed Didymous) cracked wise: {GOB_79_14} "YES, LET'S all go, so EVERYBODY dies!"

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {80 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_80_01} JUDAEA/BETHANY Four days have past {GOB_80_02} since Lazarus has died and lain entombed, {GOB_80_03} when JESUS and DISCIPLES come at last. {GOB_80_04} Two miles away, Jerusalem has bloomed ... {GOB_80_05} ... with sympathy, and many Jews are here {GOB_80_06} to comfort Laz'rus' family. STAGE SET {GOB_80_07} for Laz'rus' resurrection. [More, we fear {GOB_80_08} 'cause we all know how messy these things get ... {GOB_80_09} ... from Buffy's bloody-knuckled casket rent. // {GOB_80_10} GOD/LAWYERS SCOWL and so we move along.] {GOB_80_11} When MARTHA heard that Jesus came, she went {GOB_80_12} to meet Him: "I know you can fix what's wrong... {GOB_80_13} ... Whatever You ask God to do, He'll do." {GOB_80_14} [SWEET COW MOOS: "Ditto that. I know it's true."]

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {81 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_81_01} (To Martha) JESUS SAYS: "Laz'rus will rise." {GOB_81_02} Now, MARTHA, knowing her theology {GOB_81_03} (too well, perhaps) says: "Yes Lord, when time flies {GOB_81_04} to resurrection day, I know that he ..." {GOB_81_05} But JESUS sees she's ' grooving ' in her head: {GOB_81_06} "I AM the resurrection and the life. {GOB_81_07} He that believes in Me, though he were dead {GOB_81_08} yet shall he live and never die ... " [TEXT KNIFE ... {GOB_81_09} ... CUTS HERE to not molest the Jesus weave {GOB_81_10} with Paris Hilton but blow her a kiss.] {GOB_81_11} "... AND WHOSOEVER liveth and believe {GOB_81_12} in Me shall never die. / Believe thou this?" {GOB_81_13} "Yea, Lord, I do believe you are the Christ, {GOB_81_14} the Son of God, who should ..." [THIS SONNET'S SPLICED ...

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {82 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_82_01} ... WITH THIS ONE] "... come into the world." And when {GOB_82_02} she had so said, she went her way to ' call ' {GOB_82_03} to sister Mary ' secretly ' / [By pen? {GOB_82_04} By cellphone? King James' writers dropped the ball! ... {GOB_82_05} // WHILE BOKE is suff'ring Crisis-of-the-Text, {GOB_82_06} THE MONKEY-BOT takes over for awhile ... ] {GOB_82_07} SO ... Martha monkey-signed to Mary next: {GOB_82_08} "Come here / Son top banana want your smile." {GOB_82_09} So Mary go / see Jesus / People see {GOB_82_10} her leave her tree / Think grave! / She go / They wrong! {GOB_82_11} Same ol' / Same ol' / Confusion! / Up wrong tree! {GOB_82_12} No / Mary go / see Jesus /Mary-song: {GOB_82_13} "Why Jesus? Why / no come in time / Too late! {GOB_82_14} The cow / long gone / four days / Why you / shut gate?

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {83 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_83_01} [GOD SMILES and sends sweet Monkey into space {GOB_83_02} in his new flying saucer ... just to play. {GOB_83_03} "DEAR BOKE, you must not make a fed'ral case {GOB_83_04} of ev'ry text'al blip. Alright?" // "OK."] {GOB_83_05} So Mary falls at Jesus' feet and cries. {GOB_83_06} And Jews who came with her are crying, too. {GOB_83_07} And Jesus, seeing all this weeping, fries {GOB_83_08} a circuit somehow in his neural stew ... {GOB_83_09} ... of GOD/MAN interchanges ... and He groaned {GOB_83_10} in God's own Spirit -- troubled by their grief. {GOB_83_11} Their utter faithlessness had now re-zoned {GOB_83_12} the Happy Resurrection into BRIEF: {GOB_83_13} "How Thoughtless Jesus Let Poor Laz'rus Die." {GOB_83_14} Bad Jesus! All we're left to do is cry.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {84 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_84_01} SWEET COW moos once, and stares at Boke. // What now? {GOB_84_02} OK, that may not capture perfectly {GOB_84_03} the essence of the moment -- But, Sweet Cow, {GOB_84_04} just why that Jesus cries is hard to see. {GOB_84_05} SEE: "JESUS WEPT." That's one whole line of verse. {GOB_84_06} (Eleventh chapter / John / Verse 35) {GOB_84_07} Perhaps from empathy -- or something worse -- {GOB_84_08} from anger or frustration. Man alive! ... {GOB_84_09} ... Or God alive! (Boke squints) It's hard to tell {GOB_84_10} what could be going on inside that blend. {GOB_84_11} Whatever! / It's not going near as well {GOB_84_12} as was expected. Though it might offend ... {GOB_84_13} ... the concept of a God you can't surprise. {GOB_84_14} But how else to explain Christ's tear-filled eyes.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {85 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_85_01} "CHRIST WEPT." The greatest mystery of all? {GOB_85_02} Or something in his eye / a speck of dust? {GOB_85_03} The humanness of Jesus in a ball {GOB_85_04} to bounce against the rock of faith and trust. {GOB_85_05} THE TIMING: When exactly did he cry? {GOB_85_06} "Where have you laid him?" // ANSWER: "Come and see." {GOB_85_07} THEN "Jesus wept." / He WEPT? / Why, Jesus, why? {GOB_85_08} Is yanking Laz from heaven cruelty? / {GOB_85_09} PERHAPS HE KNEW (as God would) when he'd raise {GOB_85_10} up Lazarus from death / when there's no doubt {GOB_85_11} he was the Son of God -- THIS WOULD NOT PHASE {GOB_85_12} THE JEWS who'd double down to take him out. {GOB_85_13} HOW DEEP in bullshit must these people be {GOB_85_14} to witness THIS / THEN nail Him to a tree?

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {86 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_86_01} "NO MORE WOULD JESUS WALK AMONGST THE JEWS." {GOB_86_02} (THE LAZ'RUS RESURRECTION TURNING POINT) {GOB_86_03} No parable would bring them to the pews {GOB_86_04} of God's Church {2.0}[two-dot-oh] Christ would anoint ... {GOB_86_05} ... with His own blood ... / ... but by the hands of MEN {GOB_86_06} WHO WERE REQUIRED to kill him in the tale, {GOB_86_07} but who STILL disappoint Christ / Who still sin {GOB_86_08} by executing plot points that we hail ... {GOB_86_09} ... as vict'ry over death in hymns we sing {GOB_86_10} in version {2.0}[two-dot-oh] of God's strange plan {GOB_86_11} (who's secret codename is "Let Freedom Ring") {GOB_86_12} to amplify THE FLOW 'tween GOD and MAN. {GOB_86_13} THE PROBLEM that postmodern prophets face {GOB_86_14} is fig'ring "how in hell" to make that case.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {87 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_87_01} A GOSPEL CHOIR STARTS SINGING ... 'cause they know {GOB_87_02} just when a song's the only thing to say -- {GOB_87_03} when preachin's gone as far as it can go {GOB_87_04} and music is the only card to play. {GOB_87_05} / Have mercy on the preacher / Let him rest / {GOB_87_06} / Dear Lord, for we are all most surely filled / {GOB_87_07} / The food at home's already been pre-blessed / {GOB_87_08} / The church communion wine has done been spilled / {GOB_87_09} / Have mercy on the preacher / Make him stop / {GOB_87_10} / He's pulled another page out of his coat / {GOB_87_11} / Send down an angel, Lord, to make him drop / {GOB_87_12} / his peroration / Hope that's all he wrote! / {GOB_87_13} (And as the choir is marching off the stage, {GOB_87_14} Lyle Lovett's lawyer's callin' 'bout this page.)

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {88 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_88_01} A FEW LIGHT YEARS AWAY a Monkey-bot {GOB_88_02} is playing on his cellphone with his tail {GOB_88_03} traversing a new monkey-saucer plot {GOB_88_04} that God's constructed / Should the Monkey fail ... {GOB_88_05} ... the arbitrary mission that this day {GOB_88_06} unfolded from a wormhole Boke had lost, {GOB_88_07} then God will ask Sweet Cow to hit RE-PLAY {GOB_88_08} and not Boke now 'cause he's already sauced ... {GOB_88_09} ... for Christmas dinner / browning in a pan {GOB_88_10} of his own juice that he's drained all the seeds {GOB_88_11} of new adventures starring Raisin Bran {GOB_88_12} and Chinese pudding-girl who always needs ... {GOB_88_13} ... new batteries / or Monkey might defeat {GOB_88_14} her in the game where She and Monkey meet.