gospel of boke: DAY {9/14} 89-99/154 [937-947]

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 {9/14}
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A POSTMODERN/RHETORICAL ADVENTURE THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FORM

GOSPEL OF BOKE {89 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_89_01}   THE BORDER OF THE WILDERNESS / THE TOWN
{GOB_89_02}   OF EPHRIAM (where's nothing's going on)
{GOB_89_03}   Christ and Disciples rest // WHILE (farther down
{GOB_89_04}   south) IN JERUSALEM (so says Saint John) ...

{GOB_89_05}   ... THOSE PESKY JEWS are plotting evil deeds.
{GOB_89_06}   [OK. They are the ' VILLAINS ' in this tale.
{GOB_89_07}   You've got to have some villains or it reads
{GOB_89_08}   as dull as dirt: A ' Moby ' with no whale.]

{GOB_89_09}   PASSOVER FEAST was near at hand and so
{GOB_89_10}   Jerusalem was where good Jews would head
{GOB_89_11}   to purify themselves / Some "Tallyho!"
{GOB_89_12}   the hunt for Jesus / "Catch him, then he's dead!"

{GOB_89_13}   [BUT keep in mind SOMEBODY had to play
{GOB_89_14}   THE VILLAIN -- else no resurrection day.]

GOSPEL OF BOKE {90 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_90_01}   GOD SAYS He will not comment on this FRAME
{GOB_90_02}   that Boke's postmodern telling has prescribed
{GOB_90_03}   around the action of this gospel game.
{GOB_90_04}   RULE ONE: Man's freedom will not be proscribed.

{GOB_90_05}   JERUSALEM/THE TEMPLE... VILLAINS TALK:
{GOB_90_06}   "Will Jesus not show for the feast?" / "D'you think?"
{GOB_90_07}   The power leak He's caused they'd have to caulk.
{GOB_90_08}   [A missing line inspires a monkey-wink!]

{GOB_90_09}   Too many were believing Jesus' lines
{GOB_90_10}   of thought subverting "EVERYBODY KNOWS"
{GOB_90_11}   (which mixed with "SOCIAL STATUS" text defines
{GOB_90_12}   if you CONTROL interpretation so's ...

{GOB_90_13}   ... you keep "THE PEOPLE" tightly in a box.)
{GOB_90_14}   SO TALLYHO! We'll catch that Jesus fox!

GOSPEL OF BOKE {91 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_91_01}   IN BETHANY / SIX DAYS BEFORE THE FEAST
{GOB_91_02}   OF PASSOVER ... The Laz'rus family
{GOB_91_03}   is serving Jesus supper / WHEN the yeast
{GOB_91_04}   of UNEXPECTED GESTURE's melody ...

{GOB_91_05}   ... gives rise to sour notes from Judas' horn.
{GOB_91_06}   The gesture? / Laz'rus' sister MARY POURS
{GOB_91_07}   EXPENSIVE OINTMENT ON CHRIST'S HEAD -- Him born
{GOB_91_08}   for sacrifice to open up the doors ...

{GOB_91_09}   ... of heaven for the folks not always right
{GOB_91_10}   according to "the rules" men have nailed down
{GOB_91_11}   so brutally there was no hope in sight.
{GOB_91_12}   BAD JUDAS YELLS: "A waste for her to crown ...

{GOB_91_13}   ... Him with fine ointment / when she could have sold
{GOB_91_14}   it / and fed hungry children with the gold."

GOSPEL OF BOKE {92 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_92_01}   "LET HER ALONE," says JESUS, "For the day
{GOB_92_02}   of [Jesus'] burial has she kept this.
{GOB_92_03}   The poor ye always have with you / My stay
{GOB_92_04}   is not much longer" / (Soon a Judas kiss.)

{GOB_92_05}   NEXT DAY/JERUSALEM... When ' MUCH ' had heard
{GOB_92_06}   [King James' word choice for ' MANY ' ] Jesus was
{GOB_92_07}   on his way to the feast, THEY ran/transferred
{GOB_92_08}   palm branches to the streets and shout hazzahs! ...

{GOB_92_09}   ... [iambic for ' hosannahs '] "Bless-ed King
{GOB_92_10}   of Israel that cometh in the name
{GOB_92_11}   of God!" // AND WHEN Christ/Jesus heard them sing,
{GOB_92_12}   He found a sweet/young ass to ride and came ...

{GOB_92_13}   ... (as it was written) through THE CROWD that praised
{GOB_92_14}   him 'cause from-death-to-life he'd Laz'rus raised.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {93 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_93_01}   CHRIST'S MIRACLE WAS FAMOUS / thus was He.
{GOB_93_02}   OF COURSE, our ' VILLAINS ' were completely ticked!
{GOB_93_03}   In their own pan of juice each Pharisee
{GOB_93_04}   was furious: ' The whole world ' had been tricked ...

{GOB_93_05}   ... by Jesus' grave-stone-rolling miracle.
{GOB_93_06}   THE WORLD / THE PEOPLE / EASILY MISLED
{GOB_93_07}   BY smoke-and-mirrors / They must now annul
{GOB_93_08}   by planting crown of thorns upon His head.

{GOB_93_09}   BUT ROME NOW OWNED THE LAW, SO they must find
{GOB_93_10}   a path amongst the Romans' "AS THINGS ARE"
{GOB_93_11}   / a way to make sure justice will be blind
{GOB_93_12}   / to guarantee the killing of a star.

{GOB_93_13}   Christ's popularity must be re-bent
{GOB_93_14}   from "Hail the King!" / to "Satan's belly lint!"

GOSPEL OF BOKE {94 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_94_01}   REPLAY THE FRAGMENT "JESUS WEPT" / A LOOP:
{GOB_94_02}   HE WEPT BECAUSE his closest lacked belief.
{GOB_94_03}   HE WEPT BECAUSE The Jews must play the poop-
{GOB_94_04}   head villains in the story / AND the grief ...

{GOB_94_05}   ... from not quite seeing totally THE WHY/
{GOB_94_06}   THE STORY gave no option but His death
{GOB_94_07}   as resolution / In his human eye
{GOB_94_08}   (which he was forced to use when he drew breath) ...

{GOB_94_09}   ... it seemed that this game's rules were mis-designed.
{GOB_94_10}   ["WHICH GAME IS THAT?" says God to Boke who's hung
{GOB_94_11}   in quatrain number three / and underlined
{GOB_94_12}   ' a God Game ' in the New York Times / and flung ...

{GOB_94_13}   ... his legal pad across the room to test
{GOB_94_14}   if God will place it back upon his chest. {>>>}

GOSPEL OF BOKE {95 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_95_01}   "THOU SHALT NOT TEST THE LORD THY GOD," says He
{GOB_95_02}   who wrote that line two thousand years ago
{GOB_95_03}   in other gospels St John did not see
{GOB_95_04}   completely eye-to-eye with. // DID YOU KNOW ...

{GOB_95_05}   ... that ONLY JOHN INCLUDES The Laz'rus Scene?
{GOB_95_06}   THE "Jesus wept" ? THE TURNING POINT so huge
{GOB_95_07}   in Boke's postmodern gospel [where Cow's preen
{GOB_95_08}   and Paris Hilton's bottom's sporting rouge].

{GOB_95_09}   AS FOR THOSE 40 days the devil'd test
{GOB_95_10}   Christ in the wilderness -- John didn't care!
{GOB_95_11}   THE GOSPEL GAME is choosing what gets stressed
{GOB_95_12}   while -- given all you know -- you keep it FAIR.

{GOB_95_13}   THE WEIGHT OF TRUTH must somehow BALANCE out
{GOB_95_14}   the swings the teller makes along his route.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {96 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_96_01}   WHY JOHN? / Not Matthew, Luke, or Mark? / Have we
{GOB_96_02}   already covered this? / Too many days
{GOB_96_03}   run all together / trying hard to see
{GOB_96_04}   where we are flowing through this sonnet maze ...

{GOB_96_05}   ... of unknown turns revealed the moment when
{GOB_96_06}   you come upon them / only when they're right
{GOB_96_07}   in front of you / and one choice will begin
{GOB_96_08}   a new trajectory into the light ...

{GOB_96_09}   ... or some dark tunnel / groping for a switch
{GOB_96_10}   that opens up the roof /and we shriek "WOW
{GOB_96_11}   I didn't know that!" / OR, fall in a ditch ...
{GOB_96_12}   [This line was eaten by a purple cow!]

{GOB_96_13}   ... where even fearless Monkey-bots will balk.
{GOB_96_14}   A blackboard's pretty useless without chalk.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {97 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_97_01}   OH, YOU HAVE CHALK, says God, but are afraid
{GOB_97_02}   to push on into darkness / You don't trust
{GOB_97_03}   I'm really on your side / That plans I've made
{GOB_97_04}   include "a happy ending" 'fore you're dust / ...

{GOB_97_05}   / ... or fear that too much thinking has dissolved
{GOB_97_06}   / the delicate suspension of faith's strands
{GOB_97_07}   / amidst your knowledge matrix that's evolved
{GOB_97_08}   / into a web nobody understands ...

{GOB_97_09}   /... but Sweet Cow and some literary moll
{GOB_97_10}   / or Chinese Monkey-bot on Saturday!
{GOB_97_11}   / There is no Forty-Seventh Protocol
{GOB_97_12}   / for tunnel'd vision prophets who must weigh ...

{GOB_97_13}   / ... the dangers of proceeding to the end
{GOB_97_14}   / when you might lose your faith ... around the bend.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {98 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_98_01}   WHILE SWEET COW'S helping Lost-Boke pull a tooth
{GOB_98_02}   out of his belly button ... // GOD PLAYS CHESS
{GOB_98_03}   WITH SATAN IN A SWAT-BOKE CAFE BOOTH:
{GOB_98_04}   These 8-by-8 squares pleasantly compress ..

{GOB_98_05}   ... the choices down to just a zillion paths.
{GOB_98_06}   GOD knows that he will win // but SATAN says
{GOB_98_07}   there is a flaw within the God Game maths
{GOB_98_08}   he found that guarantees the final res ...

{GOB_98_09}   ... is not what God expects // Of course, he lies
{GOB_98_10}   sometimes / but ALWAYS bullshits -- which leaves room
{GOB_98_11}   that maybe it's the truth. // Which God denies
{GOB_98_12}   and warns that if you buy that ... HERE COMES DOOM!

{GOB_98_13}   "OUCH OUCH!" yells Boke as Sweet Cow yanks that tooth
{GOB_98_14}   out of Boke's belly button: Such is truth!

GOSPEL OF BOKE {99 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_99_01}   A WORMHOLE OPENS UP / CHRIST'S VOICE FLOATS IN ...
{GOB_99_02}   "Cast your net on the right side of the boat
{GOB_99_03}   and ye shall find." // THE WORMHOLE'S GONE AGAIN
{GOB_99_04}   "Which is the right side, God?" a monkey wrote, ...

{GOB_99_05}   ... "And I don't have a boat," he monkeyshines,
{GOB_99_06}   "just this space-flying-saucer with no net,
{GOB_99_07}   since fish is not on what a monkey dines.
{GOB_99_08}   Bananas are what all good monkeys get ...

{GOB_99_09}   ... except for Christmas dinner when Chinese
{GOB_99_10}   girls give them choc'late pudding / Nanjing wines! /
{GOB_99_11}   and pull their ears if they fail to appease
{GOB_99_12}   the Monkey-God by making monkey-signs ...

{GOB_99_13}   ... which only monkeys know just what they mean."
{GOB_99_14}   (But we are pretty sure they're all obscene.)

DAY {9/14}
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	GOSPEL OF BOKE {89 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_89_01} THE BORDER OF THE WILDERNESS / THE TOWN {GOB_89_02} OF EPHRIAM (where's nothing's going on) {GOB_89_03} Christ and Disciples rest // WHILE (farther down {GOB_89_04} south) IN JERUSALEM (so says Saint John) ... {GOB_89_05} ... THOSE PESKY JEWS are plotting evil deeds. {GOB_89_06} [OK. They are the ' VILLAINS ' in this tale. {GOB_89_07} You've got to have some villains or it reads {GOB_89_08} as dull as dirt: A ' Moby ' with no whale.] {GOB_89_09} PASSOVER FEAST was near at hand and so {GOB_89_10} Jerusalem was where good Jews would head {GOB_89_11} to purify themselves / Some "Tallyho!" {GOB_89_12} the hunt for Jesus / "Catch him, then he's dead!" {GOB_89_13} [BUT keep in mind SOMEBODY had to play {GOB_89_14} THE VILLAIN -- else no resurrection day.]

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {90 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_90_01} GOD SAYS He will not comment on this FRAME {GOB_90_02} that Boke's postmodern telling has prescribed {GOB_90_03} around the action of this gospel game. {GOB_90_04} RULE ONE: Man's freedom will not be proscribed. {GOB_90_05} JERUSALEM/THE TEMPLE... VILLAINS TALK: {GOB_90_06} "Will Jesus not show for the feast?" / "D'you think?" {GOB_90_07} The power leak He's caused they'd have to caulk. {GOB_90_08} [A missing line inspires a monkey-wink!] {GOB_90_09} Too many were believing Jesus' lines {GOB_90_10} of thought subverting "EVERYBODY KNOWS" {GOB_90_11} (which mixed with "SOCIAL STATUS" text defines {GOB_90_12} if you CONTROL interpretation so's ... {GOB_90_13} ... you keep "THE PEOPLE" tightly in a box.) {GOB_90_14} SO TALLYHO! We'll catch that Jesus fox!

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {91 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_91_01} IN BETHANY / SIX DAYS BEFORE THE FEAST {GOB_91_02} OF PASSOVER ... The Laz'rus family {GOB_91_03} is serving Jesus supper / WHEN the yeast {GOB_91_04} of UNEXPECTED GESTURE's melody ... {GOB_91_05} ... gives rise to sour notes from Judas' horn. {GOB_91_06} The gesture? / Laz'rus' sister MARY POURS {GOB_91_07} EXPENSIVE OINTMENT ON CHRIST'S HEAD -- Him born {GOB_91_08} for sacrifice to open up the doors ... {GOB_91_09} ... of heaven for the folks not always right {GOB_91_10} according to "the rules" men have nailed down {GOB_91_11} so brutally there was no hope in sight. {GOB_91_12} BAD JUDAS YELLS: "A waste for her to crown ... {GOB_91_13} ... Him with fine ointment / when she could have sold {GOB_91_14} it / and fed hungry children with the gold."

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {92 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_92_01} "LET HER ALONE," says JESUS, "For the day {GOB_92_02} of [Jesus'] burial has she kept this. {GOB_92_03} The poor ye always have with you / My stay {GOB_92_04} is not much longer" / (Soon a Judas kiss.) {GOB_92_05} NEXT DAY/JERUSALEM... When ' MUCH ' had heard {GOB_92_06} [King James' word choice for ' MANY ' ] Jesus was {GOB_92_07} on his way to the feast, THEY ran/transferred {GOB_92_08} palm branches to the streets and shout hazzahs! ... {GOB_92_09} ... [iambic for ' hosannahs '] "Bless-ed King {GOB_92_10} of Israel that cometh in the name {GOB_92_11} of God!" // AND WHEN Christ/Jesus heard them sing, {GOB_92_12} He found a sweet/young ass to ride and came ... {GOB_92_13} ... (as it was written) through THE CROWD that praised {GOB_92_14} him 'cause from-death-to-life he'd Laz'rus raised.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {93 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_93_01} CHRIST'S MIRACLE WAS FAMOUS / thus was He. {GOB_93_02} OF COURSE, our ' VILLAINS ' were completely ticked! {GOB_93_03} In their own pan of juice each Pharisee {GOB_93_04} was furious: ' The whole world ' had been tricked ... {GOB_93_05} ... by Jesus' grave-stone-rolling miracle. {GOB_93_06} THE WORLD / THE PEOPLE / EASILY MISLED {GOB_93_07} BY smoke-and-mirrors / They must now annul {GOB_93_08} by planting crown of thorns upon His head. {GOB_93_09} BUT ROME NOW OWNED THE LAW, SO they must find {GOB_93_10} a path amongst the Romans' "AS THINGS ARE" {GOB_93_11} / a way to make sure justice will be blind {GOB_93_12} / to guarantee the killing of a star. {GOB_93_13} Christ's popularity must be re-bent {GOB_93_14} from "Hail the King!" / to "Satan's belly lint!"

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {94 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_94_01} REPLAY THE FRAGMENT "JESUS WEPT" / A LOOP: {GOB_94_02} HE WEPT BECAUSE his closest lacked belief. {GOB_94_03} HE WEPT BECAUSE The Jews must play the poop- {GOB_94_04} head villains in the story / AND the grief ... {GOB_94_05} ... from not quite seeing totally THE WHY/ {GOB_94_06} THE STORY gave no option but His death {GOB_94_07} as resolution / In his human eye {GOB_94_08} (which he was forced to use when he drew breath) ... {GOB_94_09} ... it seemed that this game's rules were mis-designed. {GOB_94_10} ["WHICH GAME IS THAT?" says God to Boke who's hung {GOB_94_11} in quatrain number three / and underlined {GOB_94_12} ' a God Game ' in the New York Times / and flung ... {GOB_94_13} ... his legal pad across the room to test {GOB_94_14} if God will place it back upon his chest. {>>>}

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {95 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_95_01} "THOU SHALT NOT TEST THE LORD THY GOD," says He {GOB_95_02} who wrote that line two thousand years ago {GOB_95_03} in other gospels St John did not see {GOB_95_04} completely eye-to-eye with. // DID YOU KNOW ... {GOB_95_05} ... that ONLY JOHN INCLUDES The Laz'rus Scene? {GOB_95_06} THE "Jesus wept" ? THE TURNING POINT so huge {GOB_95_07} in Boke's postmodern gospel [where Cow's preen {GOB_95_08} and Paris Hilton's bottom's sporting rouge]. {GOB_95_09} AS FOR THOSE 40 days the devil'd test {GOB_95_10} Christ in the wilderness -- John didn't care! {GOB_95_11} THE GOSPEL GAME is choosing what gets stressed {GOB_95_12} while -- given all you know -- you keep it FAIR. {GOB_95_13} THE WEIGHT OF TRUTH must somehow BALANCE out {GOB_95_14} the swings the teller makes along his route.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {96 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_96_01} WHY JOHN? / Not Matthew, Luke, or Mark? / Have we {GOB_96_02} already covered this? / Too many days {GOB_96_03} run all together / trying hard to see {GOB_96_04} where we are flowing through this sonnet maze ... {GOB_96_05} ... of unknown turns revealed the moment when {GOB_96_06} you come upon them / only when they're right {GOB_96_07} in front of you / and one choice will begin {GOB_96_08} a new trajectory into the light ... {GOB_96_09} ... or some dark tunnel / groping for a switch {GOB_96_10} that opens up the roof /and we shriek "WOW {GOB_96_11} I didn't know that!" / OR, fall in a ditch ... {GOB_96_12} [This line was eaten by a purple cow!] {GOB_96_13} ... where even fearless Monkey-bots will balk. {GOB_96_14} A blackboard's pretty useless without chalk.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {97 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_97_01} OH, YOU HAVE CHALK, says God, but are afraid {GOB_97_02} to push on into darkness / You don't trust {GOB_97_03} I'm really on your side / That plans I've made {GOB_97_04} include "a happy ending" 'fore you're dust / ... {GOB_97_05} / ... or fear that too much thinking has dissolved {GOB_97_06} / the delicate suspension of faith's strands {GOB_97_07} / amidst your knowledge matrix that's evolved {GOB_97_08} / into a web nobody understands ... {GOB_97_09} /... but Sweet Cow and some literary moll {GOB_97_10} / or Chinese Monkey-bot on Saturday! {GOB_97_11} / There is no Forty-Seventh Protocol {GOB_97_12} / for tunnel'd vision prophets who must weigh ... {GOB_97_13} / ... the dangers of proceeding to the end {GOB_97_14} / when you might lose your faith ... around the bend.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {98 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_98_01} WHILE SWEET COW'S helping Lost-Boke pull a tooth {GOB_98_02} out of his belly button ... // GOD PLAYS CHESS {GOB_98_03} WITH SATAN IN A SWAT-BOKE CAFE BOOTH: {GOB_98_04} These 8-by-8 squares pleasantly compress .. {GOB_98_05} ... the choices down to just a zillion paths. {GOB_98_06} GOD knows that he will win // but SATAN says {GOB_98_07} there is a flaw within the God Game maths {GOB_98_08} he found that guarantees the final res ... {GOB_98_09} ... is not what God expects // Of course, he lies {GOB_98_10} sometimes / but ALWAYS bullshits -- which leaves room {GOB_98_11} that maybe it's the truth. // Which God denies {GOB_98_12} and warns that if you buy that ... HERE COMES DOOM! {GOB_98_13} "OUCH OUCH!" yells Boke as Sweet Cow yanks that tooth {GOB_98_14} out of Boke's belly button: Such is truth!

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {99 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_99_01} A WORMHOLE OPENS UP / CHRIST'S VOICE FLOATS IN ... {GOB_99_02} "Cast your net on the right side of the boat {GOB_99_03} and ye shall find." // THE WORMHOLE'S GONE AGAIN {GOB_99_04} "Which is the right side, God?" a monkey wrote, ... {GOB_99_05} ... "And I don't have a boat," he monkeyshines, {GOB_99_06} "just this space-flying-saucer with no net, {GOB_99_07} since fish is not on what a monkey dines. {GOB_99_08} Bananas are what all good monkeys get ... {GOB_99_09} ... except for Christmas dinner when Chinese {GOB_99_10} girls give them choc'late pudding / Nanjing wines! / {GOB_99_11} and pull their ears if they fail to appease {GOB_99_12} the Monkey-God by making monkey-signs ... {GOB_99_13} ... which only monkeys know just what they mean." {GOB_99_14} (But we are pretty sure they're all obscene.)