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A POSTMODERN/RHETORICAL ADVENTURE THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FORM

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {100 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_100_01}   "IN TRUTH I say to you / except a grain {GOB_100_02}   of wheat fall to the ground and die it stands {GOB_100_03}   alone / but if it dies, fruit fills the plain. / {GOB_100_04}   Who loves his life shall lose it," CHRIST expands, ...   {GOB_100_05}   ... "and he that hates his life in this world will {GOB_100_06}   keep it unto eternal life." (a beat) {GOB_100_07}   "If any man serve Me, let him [not kill {GOB_100_08}   himself] but follow me and feel the sweet ...   {GOB_100_09}   ... embrace of honor from My Father's eye. // {GOB_100_10}   BUT NOW MY SOUL IS TROUBLED, and what shall {GOB_100_11}   I say? Lord Father, save me from the die {GOB_100_12}   that's cast? Yet for this cause I came. This mal- ...   {GOB_100_13}   ... contented venture You will use to sell {GOB_100_14}   My Name, and by it, spare some folks some hell. {>>>}
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {101 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_101_01}   THEN CAME A VOICE FROM HEAVEN saying, "I {GOB_101_02}   have glorified it, and will once again." // {GOB_101_03}   SOME HEARD God's thunder / Some heard angels sigh. {GOB_101_04}   CHRIST SAID: "This Voice came not for Me: you men."   {GOB_101_05}   CHRIST BREATHES. "Now is the judgement of this world. {GOB_101_06}   Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. {GOB_101_07}   And I, if I be lifted from this world, {GOB_101_08}   will draw all men to Me: their faith's redoubt." //   {GOB_101_09}   THE PEOPLE WERE CONFUSED: "Messiah croaks? {GOB_101_10}   That's not the text we know / Which Christ is this?" // {GOB_101_11}   "A LITTLE WHILE the Light remains here, folks. {GOB_101_12}   Walk while you have the Light / lest darkness kiss ...   {GOB_101_13}   ... your path and you can't see where you will go. {GOB_101_14}   While ye have Light, be sons of Light. YA KNOW?" {>>>}
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {102 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_102_01}   OF COURSE THEY DIDN'T "KNOW" / Could not believe {GOB_102_02}   in spite of all the miracles BECAUSE {GOB_102_03}   THE PROPHECY (Isaiah) did not leave {GOB_102_04}   that possibility / That move / "THE LAWS" ...   {GOB_102_05}   ... THE TEXT SAID: He hath blinded [someone's] eyes {GOB_102_06}   and hardened [someone's] hearts, so they would not {GOB_102_07}   covert their faith. Renew. // One might surmise {GOB_102_08}   the Jews were simply following the plot ...   {GOB_102_09}   ... the God Game was designed for them to play. {GOB_102_10}   // [GOD's SILENT as the devil takes his knight {GOB_102_11}   with Boke's face painted on it. // "That's the way," {GOB_102_12}   says Satan smiling, "to insure I might ...   {GOB_102_13}   ... just beat You, when the end-game comes around." // {GOB_102_14}   BUT GOD just sips some coffee / cool / unwound. // ] {>>>}
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {103 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_103_01}   DESPITE ISAIAH, some High Jews believed {GOB_103_02}   on Jesus / BUT they did not breathe a word {GOB_103_03}   for fear that from their synagogue be cleaved {GOB_103_04}   by Pharisees who might have overheard.   {GOB_103_05}   THE LAW/THE TEXT is solid / Cannot shift, {GOB_103_06}   says poop-head Pharisees / which best explains {GOB_103_07}   the reason Jesus caused a "might-y" rift {GOB_103_08}   by taking off the bridle and the reigns ...   {GOB_103_09}   ... from people which the Pharisees put on. {GOB_103_10}   NEW GOD GAME TITLE: POMO VS POOP {GOB_103_11}   Christ is a pomo / letting new days dawn. / {GOB_103_12}   The Pharisees fight freedom / Like to coop ...   {GOB_103_13}   ... up ev'ryone inside "the way things are." {GOB_103_14}   Not "wicked evil" / Rather, "kinda par."
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {104 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_104_01}   THE DEVIL WHISPERS: God's a poop-head, too! {GOB_104_02}   A diff'rent text / but still a tyranny {GOB_104_03}   of pre-fab constructs from the residue {GOB_104_04}   of what God's said before / The Cruelty ...   {GOB_104_05}   ... of Calvary and hell is just because {GOB_104_06}   God self-constrained Himself [like rules in verse?] {GOB_104_07}   where, being God, he could ignore those laws {GOB_104_08}   and do what people think God should. REVERSE ...   {GOB_104_09}   ... THE FLOW to match what people might expect. {GOB_104_10}   THEN JESUS would not WEEP at His hard part {GOB_104_11}   to play that seems to human eyes suspect. {GOB_104_12}   THE ROLE requiring FAITH to not depart ...   {GOB_104_13}   ... from what was written when God's Game was made {GOB_104_14}   on deadline (only SIX days!) How God played!
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {105 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_105_01}   GOD SAYS he likes the devil's move so well {GOB_105_02}   that (he?) can take another one for free. {GOB_105_03}   God doesn't bullshit, but no one can tell {GOB_105_04}   if (He?) is kidding / or might actually ...   {GOB_105_05}   ... be serious about this "evil" boon. {GOB_105_06}   GOD SMILES: "It doesn't matter who moves next." {GOB_105_07}   And while they chew on that, (He?) starts to croon {GOB_105_08}   a country song of Asian analects...   {GOB_105_09}   Confucious with guitars and cowboy hats: {GOB_105_10}   / Oh darlin' I ain't smart, but I can see {GOB_105_11}   / the one thread dangling from your sweater that's {GOB_105_12}   / a-keepin' your sweet heart away from me. //   {GOB_105_13}   THE DEVIL BLUSHES, or perhaps just chokes -- {GOB_105_14}   (he's?) never heard God sing no "hole-y" jokes.
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {106 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_106_01}   THE NEXT FIVE ST JOHN CHAPTERS, JESUS SPEAKS {GOB_106_02}   IN PRIVATE to disciples to prepare {GOB_106_03}   them for his leaving -- paralogic peeks {GOB_106_04}   into the future / and to fill the air ...   {GOB_106_05}   ... with power-generating guidelines, too. {GOB_106_06}   BEFORE WE SAMPLE FRAGMENTS ... visu'lize {GOB_106_07}   an UPPER ROOM and NAKED JESUS who {GOB_106_08}   removed his cloak and so just hide your eyes ...   {GOB_106_09}   ... a moment 'till he's Gandhi'd with a towel. {GOB_106_10}   Dressed as a servant/slave, He'll wash the feet {GOB_106_11}   of His Disciples / PETER calls this foul! {GOB_106_12}   Dear Jesus, please swap places, take my seat ...   {GOB_106_13}   ... Why should the Son of God humiliate {GOB_106_14}   Himself for me? // CHRIST says, THIS, don't debate. {>>>}
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {107 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_107_01}   "IF I DON'T WASH YOU, you can't be with Me." {GOB_107_02}   AND SO he washed them all (but knew that one {GOB_107_03}   was still unclean / betrayal comes) / THEN He {GOB_107_04}   got dressed and sat / LAST SUPPER HAS BEGUN   {GOB_107_05}   "DO YOU KNOW WHY I washed your feet? Yes, I {GOB_107_06}   your ' Lord and Master ' -- yes, most surely so. {GOB_107_07}   BY THIS EXAMPLE do I testify -- {GOB_107_08}   make vivid how your fellowship should flow.   {GOB_107_09}   I tell you now of what will come to pass, {GOB_107_10}   so that ye may believe that I am He. {GOB_107_11}   IN TRUTH I say to WELCOME ev'ry class {GOB_107_12}   of those I send to you, as He sent me."   {GOB_107_13}   THEN ONCE AGAIN Christ's spirit groaned / He spoke: {GOB_107_14}   "IN TRUTH, one will betray My wheel / Bad spoke. {>>>}
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {108 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_108_01}   "WHO will betray you, Lord?" AND JESUS SAID: {GOB_108_02}   "The one I give a sop I've dipped to." (That, {GOB_108_03}   of course, is Judas.) WHEN Christ gave him bread, {GOB_108_04}   said, "What thou do, do quickly." (Go on, scat!)   {GOB_108_05}   AND AT THAT MOMENT Satan entered in {GOB_108_06}   to Judas and he left into the night. {GOB_108_07}   [According to God's plan / Is it still sin? {GOB_108_08}   Could Judas go to heaven? / He just MIGHT.   {GOB_108_09}   THAT WORD, again, that Boke keeps playing back {GOB_108_10}   on this choo-chooing{chew-chewing} pomo gospel train {GOB_108_11}   to lay a monkey-wrench upon the track. {GOB_108_12}   Just one word long -- an "awful" short refrain ...   {GOB_108_13}   ... that "normal" faith can hardling tolerate. {GOB_108_14}   What's "FAITH" when mixed with "MIGHT"? A hard debate.
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {109 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_109_01}   THE CAFE SWAT-BOKE'S JUKEBOX: Morissette's {GOB_109_02}   "Ironic" plays ('till God runs out of change) / {GOB_109_03}   THE BOOTH where God and Satan's chessboard sets / {GOB_109_04}   (SUBTITLE:) GOOD AND EVIL INTERCHANGE   {GOB_109_05}   The booth is empty so we PAN AROUND / {GOB_109_06}   THERE on the TINY DANCE FLOOR... SHE and HIM {GOB_109_07}   attempt to find a step that fits the sound. {GOB_109_08}   It's hard to tell who's who (it's mighty dim).   {GOB_109_09}   A WHISPER: "Come on, no one's going to know. {GOB_109_10}   All things are lawful." // "Not all edify." // {GOB_109_11}   "Is ' edify ' the only row to hoe?" {GOB_109_12}   // "Behave, you know the end is drawing nigh." //   {GOB_109_13}   AND SO IT GOES until there's no more cents {GOB_109_14}   in Cafe Swat-Boke's jukebox ... [Did you wince?]
	GOSPEL OF BOKE {110 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_110_01}   WHERE'S PARIS HILTON'S CRACK? It's Christmas week. {GOB_110_02}   The farm is loop-de-looping episodes {GOB_110_03}   exposed already -- case you need a peek {GOB_110_04}   of rich girls running wild down country roads ...   {GOB_110_05}   ... where thumpin' congregations buckle down {GOB_110_06}   morality before the girls upend {GOB_110_07}   the values of a southern country town {GOB_110_08}   and spill their apples where no one has sinned ...   {GOB_110_09}   ... in quite a spell, says grandma with high-haired {GOB_110_10}   assurance / BUT her older grandson smiles {GOB_110_11}   and blushes 'cause, perhaps he might have erred {GOB_110_12}   "a little" since those wicked city styles ...   {GOB_110_13}   ... are just "a little" tough to disregard. {GOB_110_14}   Grandma says, "I've killed chickens. / Where's that bard?!?"

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