gospel of boke: DAY {12/14}122-132/154[970-980]

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 {12/14}
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A POSTMODERN/RHETORICAL ADVENTURE THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FORM

GOSPEL OF BOKE {122 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_122_01}   " ' THIS WORLD / HATE YOU ' ? / WHY THIS? " says CHINA GIRL
{GOB_122_02}   in Mandarin-to-English to the MONK-
{GOB_122_03}   EY-BOT. (An A. I. program munged in Perl --
{GOB_122_04}   miraculously not the piece of junk ...

{GOB_122_05}   ... you might expect from just 3-weeks of work
{GOB_122_06}   by Boke by way of looped complexity.
{GOB_122_07}   INSIDE MONK'S SIMPLE CHAOS what might lurk
{GOB_122_08}   was fuzzy / Could Monk "do" theology?)

{GOB_122_09}   MONK'S PROGRAM whirred awhile, and then Monk spit
{GOB_122_10}   out easily-translatable word chunks:
{GOB_122_11}   "GOD UPGRADE PROGRAM. / PEOPLE / CHANGE / BAD FIT." //
{GOB_122_12}   "HATE CHANGE?" says CHINA GIRL / who thinks bot-monks ...

{GOB_122_13}   ... are kinda cool / in lots of monkey ways.
{GOB_122_14}   Fun cellphone playmate for those rainy days.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {123 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_123_01}   "A SOFTWARE UPGRADE? Will You let Boke FRAME
{GOB_123_02}   Christ's (Life-Death-Life-Ascension) Truth THUS, God?" //
{GOB_123_03}   "It cannot be undone, Sweet Cow, / Boke came
{GOB_123_04}   to this ' by sonnet's way ' / Though that seems odd, ...

{GOB_123_05}   ... it must be said that Jesus' words were strange --
{GOB_123_06}   though not so technologic, I'll admit." //
{GOB_123_07}   "Moo, Lord, you know my spots I rarely change
{GOB_123_08}   (the color purple is my perfect fit) ...

{GOB_123_09}   ... and ' knowing ev'rything ' makes changing hard.
{GOB_123_10}   All this I know / admit / Yet I must poop
{GOB_123_11}   on Boke's head / even though he's now ' the bard
{GOB_123_12}   of thousand sonnets ' (nearly) ..." // "Where's My soup?" ...

{GOB_123_13}   ... says God erasing Cow's un-Sweetest line
{GOB_123_14}   from short-term memory, and starts to dine.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {124 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_124_01}   / ONE LINE OF PARIS HILTON CODE: "SHOW ASS."
{GOB_124_02}   / One line of Boke's, of course, is just "WRITE VERSE."
{GOB_124_03}   / Some lines of papa farmer's are "PLEASE PASS
{GOB_124_04}   THE CORNBREAD, MOMMA / LADIES, DO NOT CURSE ...

{GOB_124_05}   ... / AND GET YOUR LAZY BOTTOM'S UP AND WORK!"
{GOB_124_06}   [BOKE-NOTE TO PARIS: Jesus says, YOU DON'T!
{GOB_124_07}   But not in John, so let that coffee perk
{GOB_124_08}   another day, because Boke surely won't ...

{GOB_124_09}   ... go traipsing onto other gospel turf.
{GOB_124_10}   John's quite enough to ' plagiarize ' this week.
{GOB_124_11}   / Oh, wicked pomos / snatching as they surf
{GOB_124_12}   the texts of ev'ry age / ' Now ' back to Greek.]

{GOB_124_13}   WHAT'S MISSING from "The Simple Life" is CODE.
{GOB_124_14}   ' Which lines, ' of course, depends upon ' which road. ' {>>>}

GOSPEL OF BOKE {125 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_125_01}   "WHAT ' CLASS ' IS JESUS, Boke? / I thought we'd clipped
{GOB_125_02}   that thread?" says Cow, who Boke's renamed Un-Sweet. //
{GOB_125_03}   "Ha ha," says Cow, "Just wait -- you'll be sweet-lipped
{GOB_125_04}   when Boke get's hungry for Cow's choc'late teat!" //

{GOB_125_05}   "GOOD GOD," says God, "why are you fighting now?" //
{GOB_125_06}   "For ' conflict, ' Lord," says Boke, "The Jews are tired
{GOB_125_07}   of being vilified... We thought that Cow
{GOB_125_08}   could take their place awhile." // "So, you've rewired ...

{GOB_125_09}   ... the gospel circuit board ... to circumvent
{GOB_125_10}   an Anti-defamation league boycott?" //
{GOB_125_11}   "Dear Lord, You know we'll never make a cent
{GOB_125_12}   on this, already. Cow's teat's way too ' hot! ' " //

{GOB_125_13}   Amidst the chaos, Sweet Cow's question slips
{GOB_125_14}   into a wormhole ... "Class" talk squelched with quips.

GOSPEL OF BOKE {126 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_126_01}   THE WRITER AT HIS LAPTOP -- looking down
{GOB_126_02}   on God and Cow and Boke (the gospelwright) --
{GOB_126_03}   FLIPS PAGES OF HIS BIBLE WITH A FROWN:
{GOB_126_04}   How can this be wound up? (The schedule's tight.)

{GOB_126_05}   / Bring in the choir to sing the story out?
{GOB_126_06}   / Skip all the parts that "everybody knows?"
{GOB_126_07}   / New ending: Monkey-bot becomes devout?
{GOB_126_08}   / "The REAL Messiah comes!" some mad Jew crows.

{GOB_126_09}   The bible in his lap says, HERE IT IS:
{GOB_126_10}   THE STORY that you chose to tell again --
{GOB_126_11}   infused, of course, with all a sonnet's fizz
{GOB_126_12}   can bubble out of everything therein...

{GOB_126_13}   How many more John-fragments of his Christ
{GOB_126_14}   are necessary now? / How much more ' geist '?

GOSPEL OF BOKE {127 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_127_01}   SAYS PARIS HILTON: "Boke, there's surely MORE
{GOB_127_02}   to ' my code ' than my bottom / You're not fair!" //
{GOB_127_03}   "You're right, dear. Shall we make it MORE hard core?"
{GOB_127_04}   [MORE ' geist, ' it seems ... Can this go anywhere?]

{GOB_127_05}   "Who was that whispering?" asks Paris, piqued. //
{GOB_127_06}   "Pay no attention to the man behind
{GOB_127_07}   square brackets, darling." // But, still Paris peeked
{GOB_127_08}   and saw THE WRITER: "Are you this unkind ...

{GOB_127_09}   ... to all rich, pretty girls with their own show?" //
{GOB_127_10}   "FORGIVE ME, Paris, you transmit a lot
{GOB_127_11}   with very little text. / Your name can sow
{GOB_127_12}   a field of corn-text ... / Sorry, this was not ...

{GOB_127_13}   ... a great idea -- to put words in your mouth.
{GOB_127_14}   Beyond your bottom, everything goes south."

GOSPEL OF BOKE {128 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_128_01}   WHILE COW IS SWATTING BOKE FOR BEING MEAN
{GOB_128_02}   TO PARIS HILTON ... CHRIST'S PREP-TALK'S RESUMED
{GOB_128_03}   TO HIS DISCIPLES (JOHN 16 : 16)
{GOB_128_04}   SO THEY WILL NOT COLLAPSE WHEN HE'S ENTOMBED ...

{GOB_128_05}   "A LITTLE WHILE and ye shall NOT see Me;
{GOB_128_06}   AND THEN A LITTLE WHILE, ye SHALL again,
{GOB_128_07}   for I go to the Father." // "What is He
{GOB_128_08}   unloading now?" (Another specimen ...

{GOB_128_09}   ... of pure confusion Jesus' words inspired
{GOB_128_10}   in some of His disciples ... EVEN NOW
{GOB_128_11}   when almost all THE STORY has transpired.)
{GOB_128_12}   AND JESUS SAID, "OK, I will allow ...

{GOB_128_13}   ... my paralogic figures can be hard
{GOB_128_14}   to follow [like some prophesying bard.] {>>>}

GOSPEL OF BOKE {129 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_129_01}   BUT FINALLY HE MADE IT PLAIN ENOUGH:
{GOB_129_02}   They sort of understood what was to come
{GOB_129_03}   and said, "Lo, Jesus, now You've deigned to slough
{GOB_129_04}   that fancy-figure language, we're not dumb:

{GOB_129_05}   NOW WE ARE SURE that Thou know everything.
{GOB_129_06}   and don't need anyone to ask You why.
{GOB_129_07}   We know that You come forth from heaven's King."
{GOB_129_08}   / (But were they REALLY SURE why He must die?

{GOB_129_09}   / ONE BOTTOM LINE -- a long way from the end --
{GOB_129_10}   / is there's no way for men to comprehend
{GOB_129_11}   / the plot points God has chosen: why He'd send
{GOB_129_12}   / ' His Son' to die so harshly ... to amend ...

{GOB_129_13}   / ... His ' program code ' for humankind's affairs.
{GOB_129_14}   / Some wave their arms, but ' SMART ' folks wear blank stares.)

GOSPEL OF BOKE {130 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_130_01}   THEN, SOTTO VOCE, SOMEONE MOOS AND ADDS,
{GOB_130_02}   "And maybe ' smart ' in this case means / ' relax. '
{GOB_130_03}   / Give up / give in / give way / (just nod) / when scads
{GOB_130_04}   of opportunities to nail the facts ...

{GOB_130_05}   ... down hard have left you still confused / when time
{GOB_130_06}   has come to let it go / and let things flow ...
{GOB_130_07}   / If you are in the presence of sublime
{GOB_130_08}   incomprehensibility ... / Let go!" //

{GOB_130_09}   [SWEET COW DENIES she wrote the lines above:
{GOB_130_10}   " ' Designer propaganda, ' seems to me.
{GOB_130_11}   But I won't say whose hand might fit that glove --
{GOB_130_12}   though maybe their name starts with G or B."]

{GOB_130_13}   A LESS THAN SOTTO VOICE responds to this:
{GOB_130_14}   "You know which end of God Sweet Cow can kiss!"

GOSPEL OF BOKE {131 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_131_01}   THE WRITER AT HIS LAPTOP ... stops to pray
{GOB_131_02}   to God in heaven (not down on the page).
{GOB_131_03}   "Dear Lord, forgive me for the awkward way
{GOB_131_04}   I wrote tonight -- I thought that I'd asuage ...

{GOB_131_05}   ... some early morning suff'ring if I'd key
{GOB_131_06}   directly on the screen ... instead of scrawl
{GOB_131_07}   -- like all the nights before -- illegibly
{GOB_131_08}   on yellow legal pad ... But these words fall ...

{GOB_131_09}   ... much diff'rently -- and not straight from my soul.
{GOB_131_10}   OR, SO IT SEEMS to me, as I now strain
{GOB_131_11}   to finish out today ... down in a hole
{GOB_131_12}   much diff'rent than the playful ones that chain ...

{GOB_131_13}   ... some episodes within this gospel text.
{GOB_131_14}   DON'T LET ME LOSE MY FAITH in ' what comes next. ' "

GOSPEL OF BOKE {132 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)
{GOB_132_01}   BEFORE THE FINAL ACTION SCENES BEGIN,
{GOB_132_02}   CHRIST PRAYS with his disciples to conclude
{GOB_132_03}   His private ministry to them... FADE IN:
{GOB_132_04}   OH LORD, The Hour has come ... The players cued...

{GOB_132_05}   DEAR FATHER, glorify thy Son, so I
{GOB_132_06}   may glorify My Father -- as Your plan
{GOB_132_07}   has laid out long ago and by and by.
{GOB_132_08}   The power over death displayed by Man ...

{GOB_132_09}   ... as gift from Thee for all who will believe.
{GOB_132_10}   The work you have laid out for Me is done.
{GOB_132_11}   Keep mine from evil -- do not let them leave
{GOB_132_12}   this world, though they are not of it, but spun ...

{GOB_132_13}   ... for better threads of Your eternity.
{GOB_132_14}   For now, however, this game is the key.

DAY {12/14}
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	GOSPEL OF BOKE {122 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_122_01} " ' THIS WORLD / HATE YOU ' ? / WHY THIS? " says CHINA GIRL {GOB_122_02} in Mandarin-to-English to the MONK- {GOB_122_03} EY-BOT. (An A. I. program munged in Perl -- {GOB_122_04} miraculously not the piece of junk ... {GOB_122_05} ... you might expect from just 3-weeks of work {GOB_122_06} by Boke by way of looped complexity. {GOB_122_07} INSIDE MONK'S SIMPLE CHAOS what might lurk {GOB_122_08} was fuzzy / Could Monk "do" theology?) {GOB_122_09} MONK'S PROGRAM whirred awhile, and then Monk spit {GOB_122_10} out easily-translatable word chunks: {GOB_122_11} "GOD UPGRADE PROGRAM. / PEOPLE / CHANGE / BAD FIT." // {GOB_122_12} "HATE CHANGE?" says CHINA GIRL / who thinks bot-monks ... {GOB_122_13} ... are kinda cool / in lots of monkey ways. {GOB_122_14} Fun cellphone playmate for those rainy days.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {123 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_123_01} "A SOFTWARE UPGRADE? Will You let Boke FRAME {GOB_123_02} Christ's (Life-Death-Life-Ascension) Truth THUS, God?" // {GOB_123_03} "It cannot be undone, Sweet Cow, / Boke came {GOB_123_04} to this ' by sonnet's way ' / Though that seems odd, ... {GOB_123_05} ... it must be said that Jesus' words were strange -- {GOB_123_06} though not so technologic, I'll admit." // {GOB_123_07} "Moo, Lord, you know my spots I rarely change {GOB_123_08} (the color purple is my perfect fit) ... {GOB_123_09} ... and ' knowing ev'rything ' makes changing hard. {GOB_123_10} All this I know / admit / Yet I must poop {GOB_123_11} on Boke's head / even though he's now ' the bard {GOB_123_12} of thousand sonnets ' (nearly) ..." // "Where's My soup?" ... {GOB_123_13} ... says God erasing Cow's un-Sweetest line {GOB_123_14} from short-term memory, and starts to dine.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {124 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_124_01} / ONE LINE OF PARIS HILTON CODE: "SHOW ASS." {GOB_124_02} / One line of Boke's, of course, is just "WRITE VERSE." {GOB_124_03} / Some lines of papa farmer's are "PLEASE PASS {GOB_124_04} THE CORNBREAD, MOMMA / LADIES, DO NOT CURSE ... {GOB_124_05} ... / AND GET YOUR LAZY BOTTOM'S UP AND WORK!" {GOB_124_06} [BOKE-NOTE TO PARIS: Jesus says, YOU DON'T! {GOB_124_07} But not in John, so let that coffee perk {GOB_124_08} another day, because Boke surely won't ... {GOB_124_09} ... go traipsing onto other gospel turf. {GOB_124_10} John's quite enough to ' plagiarize ' this week. {GOB_124_11} / Oh, wicked pomos / snatching as they surf {GOB_124_12} the texts of ev'ry age / ' Now ' back to Greek.] {GOB_124_13} WHAT'S MISSING from "The Simple Life" is CODE. {GOB_124_14} ' Which lines, ' of course, depends upon ' which road. ' {>>>}

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {125 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_125_01} "WHAT ' CLASS ' IS JESUS, Boke? / I thought we'd clipped {GOB_125_02} that thread?" says Cow, who Boke's renamed Un-Sweet. // {GOB_125_03} "Ha ha," says Cow, "Just wait -- you'll be sweet-lipped {GOB_125_04} when Boke get's hungry for Cow's choc'late teat!" // {GOB_125_05} "GOOD GOD," says God, "why are you fighting now?" // {GOB_125_06} "For ' conflict, ' Lord," says Boke, "The Jews are tired {GOB_125_07} of being vilified... We thought that Cow {GOB_125_08} could take their place awhile." // "So, you've rewired ... {GOB_125_09} ... the gospel circuit board ... to circumvent {GOB_125_10} an Anti-defamation league boycott?" // {GOB_125_11} "Dear Lord, You know we'll never make a cent {GOB_125_12} on this, already. Cow's teat's way too ' hot! ' " // {GOB_125_13} Amidst the chaos, Sweet Cow's question slips {GOB_125_14} into a wormhole ... "Class" talk squelched with quips.

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {126 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_126_01} THE WRITER AT HIS LAPTOP -- looking down {GOB_126_02} on God and Cow and Boke (the gospelwright) -- {GOB_126_03} FLIPS PAGES OF HIS BIBLE WITH A FROWN: {GOB_126_04} How can this be wound up? (The schedule's tight.) {GOB_126_05} / Bring in the choir to sing the story out? {GOB_126_06} / Skip all the parts that "everybody knows?" {GOB_126_07} / New ending: Monkey-bot becomes devout? {GOB_126_08} / "The REAL Messiah comes!" some mad Jew crows. {GOB_126_09} The bible in his lap says, HERE IT IS: {GOB_126_10} THE STORY that you chose to tell again -- {GOB_126_11} infused, of course, with all a sonnet's fizz {GOB_126_12} can bubble out of everything therein... {GOB_126_13} How many more John-fragments of his Christ {GOB_126_14} are necessary now? / How much more ' geist '?

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {127 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_127_01} SAYS PARIS HILTON: "Boke, there's surely MORE {GOB_127_02} to ' my code ' than my bottom / You're not fair!" // {GOB_127_03} "You're right, dear. Shall we make it MORE hard core?" {GOB_127_04} [MORE ' geist, ' it seems ... Can this go anywhere?] {GOB_127_05} "Who was that whispering?" asks Paris, piqued. // {GOB_127_06} "Pay no attention to the man behind {GOB_127_07} square brackets, darling." // But, still Paris peeked {GOB_127_08} and saw THE WRITER: "Are you this unkind ... {GOB_127_09} ... to all rich, pretty girls with their own show?" // {GOB_127_10} "FORGIVE ME, Paris, you transmit a lot {GOB_127_11} with very little text. / Your name can sow {GOB_127_12} a field of corn-text ... / Sorry, this was not ... {GOB_127_13} ... a great idea -- to put words in your mouth. {GOB_127_14} Beyond your bottom, everything goes south."

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {128 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_128_01} WHILE COW IS SWATTING BOKE FOR BEING MEAN {GOB_128_02} TO PARIS HILTON ... CHRIST'S PREP-TALK'S RESUMED {GOB_128_03} TO HIS DISCIPLES (JOHN 16 : 16) {GOB_128_04} SO THEY WILL NOT COLLAPSE WHEN HE'S ENTOMBED ... {GOB_128_05} "A LITTLE WHILE and ye shall NOT see Me; {GOB_128_06} AND THEN A LITTLE WHILE, ye SHALL again, {GOB_128_07} for I go to the Father." // "What is He {GOB_128_08} unloading now?" (Another specimen ... {GOB_128_09} ... of pure confusion Jesus' words inspired {GOB_128_10} in some of His disciples ... EVEN NOW {GOB_128_11} when almost all THE STORY has transpired.) {GOB_128_12} AND JESUS SAID, "OK, I will allow ... {GOB_128_13} ... my paralogic figures can be hard {GOB_128_14} to follow [like some prophesying bard.] {>>>}

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {129 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_129_01} BUT FINALLY HE MADE IT PLAIN ENOUGH: {GOB_129_02} They sort of understood what was to come {GOB_129_03} and said, "Lo, Jesus, now You've deigned to slough {GOB_129_04} that fancy-figure language, we're not dumb: {GOB_129_05} NOW WE ARE SURE that Thou know everything. {GOB_129_06} and don't need anyone to ask You why. {GOB_129_07} We know that You come forth from heaven's King." {GOB_129_08} / (But were they REALLY SURE why He must die? {GOB_129_09} / ONE BOTTOM LINE -- a long way from the end -- {GOB_129_10} / is there's no way for men to comprehend {GOB_129_11} / the plot points God has chosen: why He'd send {GOB_129_12} / ' His Son' to die so harshly ... to amend ... {GOB_129_13} / ... His ' program code ' for humankind's affairs. {GOB_129_14} / Some wave their arms, but ' SMART ' folks wear blank stares.)

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {130 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_130_01} THEN, SOTTO VOCE, SOMEONE MOOS AND ADDS, {GOB_130_02} "And maybe ' smart ' in this case means / ' relax. ' {GOB_130_03} / Give up / give in / give way / (just nod) / when scads {GOB_130_04} of opportunities to nail the facts ... {GOB_130_05} ... down hard have left you still confused / when time {GOB_130_06} has come to let it go / and let things flow ... {GOB_130_07} / If you are in the presence of sublime {GOB_130_08} incomprehensibility ... / Let go!" // {GOB_130_09} [SWEET COW DENIES she wrote the lines above: {GOB_130_10} " ' Designer propaganda, ' seems to me. {GOB_130_11} But I won't say whose hand might fit that glove -- {GOB_130_12} though maybe their name starts with G or B."] {GOB_130_13} A LESS THAN SOTTO VOICE responds to this: {GOB_130_14} "You know which end of God Sweet Cow can kiss!"

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {131 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_131_01} THE WRITER AT HIS LAPTOP ... stops to pray {GOB_131_02} to God in heaven (not down on the page). {GOB_131_03} "Dear Lord, forgive me for the awkward way {GOB_131_04} I wrote tonight -- I thought that I'd asuage ... {GOB_131_05} ... some early morning suff'ring if I'd key {GOB_131_06} directly on the screen ... instead of scrawl {GOB_131_07} -- like all the nights before -- illegibly {GOB_131_08} on yellow legal pad ... But these words fall ... {GOB_131_09} ... much diff'rently -- and not straight from my soul. {GOB_131_10} OR, SO IT SEEMS to me, as I now strain {GOB_131_11} to finish out today ... down in a hole {GOB_131_12} much diff'rent than the playful ones that chain ... {GOB_131_13} ... some episodes within this gospel text. {GOB_131_14} DON'T LET ME LOSE MY FAITH in ' what comes next. ' "

	GOSPEL OF BOKE {132 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!) {GOB_132_01} BEFORE THE FINAL ACTION SCENES BEGIN, {GOB_132_02} CHRIST PRAYS with his disciples to conclude {GOB_132_03} His private ministry to them... FADE IN: {GOB_132_04} OH LORD, The Hour has come ... The players cued... {GOB_132_05} DEAR FATHER, glorify thy Son, so I {GOB_132_06} may glorify My Father -- as Your plan {GOB_132_07} has laid out long ago and by and by. {GOB_132_08} The power over death displayed by Man ... {GOB_132_09} ... as gift from Thee for all who will believe. {GOB_132_10} The work you have laid out for Me is done. {GOB_132_11} Keep mine from evil -- do not let them leave {GOB_132_12} this world, though they are not of it, but spun ... {GOB_132_13} ... for better threads of Your eternity. {GOB_132_14} For now, however, this game is the key.