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 {13/14}
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A POSTMODERN/RHETORICAL ADVENTURE THROUGH THE GOSPEL OF JOHN IN SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET FORM


GOSPEL OF BOKE {133 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_133_01}   "WHAT MEAN ' THE WORLD ' ?" says China-girl who's phoned

{GOB_133_02}   in Mandarin-to-Monkey-bot thumb code.

{GOB_133_03}   The Monkey-bot's complexity web groaned

{GOB_133_04}   (which sometimes sounds like ' whirr ' ) / searched for a node ...

 
{GOB_133_05}   ... of interchange of flows of ev'rything

{GOB_133_06}   about "the world" / transmitted this reply:

{GOB_133_07}   "THE WORLD" / the people-patterns / bound with STRING.

{GOB_133_08}   / STRING sometime good / sometime STRING alibi:

 
{GOB_133_09}   BRAIN-HEART / NOT USED / LOOK-SEE / WHERE STRING / IS TIED.

{GOB_133_10}   OLD STRING / SAME STRING / AGAIN / AGAIN / STRING-ROCK.

{GOB_133_11}   ROCK SCISSORS BREAK / NEW PATH CANNOT / UNTRIED.

{GOB_133_12}   THE WORLD / THE STRING / THE BRAIN / THE HEART / THE LOCK.

 
{GOB_133_13}   "CUT STRING!" says China-girl, "Why WORLD be dumb?"

{GOB_133_14}   (with six smooth strokes of her fast, graceful thumb).


GOSPEL OF BOKE {134 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_134_01}   THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE / RESORT

{GOB_134_02}   FOR JESUS AND DISCIPLES / NOT TONIGHT:

{GOB_134_03}   A BAND OF MEN COME from the Jewish court.

{GOB_134_04}   "WHOM SEEK YE?" JESUS SAYS to them on sight. //

 
{GOB_134_05}   "Jesus of Nazareth," THEY say. // "I'm He." //

{GOB_134_06}   THEY all fall down (said John) // Christ asks again:

{GOB_134_07}   "WHOM SEEK YE?" // "Jesus," they say fearfully.

{GOB_134_08}   "I said I'm He / Let's go / Ignore these men."

 
{GOB_134_09}   THEN HOT-HEAD PETER drew his sword and sliced

{GOB_134_10}   off high priest's servant Malaus' right ear.

{GOB_134_11}   BUT JESUS SAID: "Don't be an anti-christ.

{GOB_134_12}   Put that away / You know why I am here...

 
{GOB_134_13}   Should I not drink the cup God's given me?" //

{GOB_134_14}   The men bind Jesus while disciples flee.


GOSPEL OF BOKE {135 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_135_01}   WHILE PETER IS DENYING he knows Christ

{GOB_135_02}   to Damsel-at-the-door outside the court

{GOB_135_03}   of Caiaphas, high priest -- INSIDE, not-niced

{GOB_135_04}   is JESUS by the Jews who now resort ...

 
{GOB_135_05}   ... to standard poop-head principles to seek

{GOB_135_06}   the sentences they need to justify

{GOB_135_07}   a murder while appearing at the peak

{GOB_135_08}   of holiness / but merely wish to tie ...

 
{GOB_135_09}   ... the strings a little tighter where they are.

{GOB_135_10}   The STRINGS suspending their authority

{GOB_135_11}   within the matrix of the Jewish jar

{GOB_135_12}   now floating on a roaring Roman sea.

 
{GOB_135_13}   "MY WORDS are in the open / Ask each one

{GOB_135_14}   who drags me here, just what-the-hell I've done."


GOSPEL OF BOKE {136 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_136_01}   WHILE PETER IS DENYING Christ twice more...

{GOB_136_02}   They drag Christ off to Pilate who can grant

{GOB_136_03}   the Roman state's approval (por favor)

{GOB_136_04}   to execute this Jesus for his cant ...

 
{GOB_136_05}   ... / his words that clip the STRINGS which they hold dear.

{GOB_136_06}   His social/power-cracking poetry.

{GOB_136_07}   His bold expressions that these high Jews fear

{GOB_136_08}   will undermine "the world" which their eyes see.

 
{GOB_136_09}   As PILATE ENTERS he calls out to Him:

{GOB_136_10}   "Art Thou The King of Jews? / Yes, Jesus, You." //

{GOB_136_11}   "Do you say that yourself, or Tiny Tim

{GOB_136_12}   [or someone who won't rhyme]?" // "Am I a Jew?" ...

 
{GOB_136_13}   ... says Pilate. "Your own priests delivered Thee

{GOB_136_14}   unto this judgement station / Just tell me."


GOSPEL OF BOKE {137 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_137_01}   "WHAT HAST THOU DONE?" asks Pilate. // Christ replies:

{GOB_137_02}   "MY KINGDOM is not of this world / If so

{GOB_137_03}   my servants would have fought those Jewish guys." //

{GOB_137_04}   (And this is all that Pilate needs to know, ...

 
{GOB_137_05}   ... but since he's here, he'll let Christ speak some more

{GOB_137_06}   about how those "of Truth" all hear His word.)

{GOB_137_07}   "Ah what is truth?" smiles Pilate out the door:

{GOB_137_08}   "I FIND NO FAULT IN HIM." // "Don't be absurd,"

 
{GOB_137_09}   ... the Jews shout, "Pilate is not Caesar's friend

{GOB_137_10}   if he release this Jesus." // Pilate oh's:

{GOB_137_11}   the Jews had pulled his STRING / made Pilate bend

{GOB_137_12}   from reason to the reasons of Christ's foes.

 
{GOB_137_13}   But HONOR slowed his hand / he'd try to save

{GOB_137_14}   this innocent from undeserve-ed grave.


GOSPEL OF BOKE {138 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_138_01}   WE FREEZE TIME and we toussel PILATE'S hair

{GOB_138_02}   WHILE RIDING ON A CAM'RA 'round his HEAD

{GOB_138_03}   AS IT contests the question "What is fair?"

{GOB_138_04}   (NOT "truth" -- to him a stone that can't be bled ...

 
{GOB_138_05}   ... But -- "in the balance" -- how this case he'll judge.

{GOB_138_06}   A BULLSHIT CASE as far as he can see /

{GOB_138_07}   but there is bullshit that is hard to budge

{GOB_138_08}   with reason / Much less stress to just agree ...

 
{GOB_138_09}   ... to go along with bullshit-screaming nuts.

{GOB_138_10}   / (LIKE OUR SUPREME COURT when it turned to shit

{GOB_138_11}   / and stuck their heads up their collective butts

{GOB_138_12}   / and told DEMOCRACY it's time to quit.)

 
{GOB_138_13}   If Pilate would have been a Cicero,

{GOB_138_14}   he might have found a way to plunge the flow.


GOSPEL OF BOKE {139 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_139_01}   SWEET COW SETS OFF THE BOKE-ALARM AGAIN

{GOB_139_02}   "We're in the stretch where Christ is go'ng to die,

{GOB_139_03}   and STILL he works a few more ' bullshits ' in? //

{GOB_139_04}   "Cow, without BULLSHIT!, Boke can't prophesy...

 
{GOB_139_05}   ... That is a line of code I wrote for him.

{GOB_139_06}   (Unlike your purple spots from outer space.)

{GOB_139_07}   Before this world began, I ran a sim

{GOB_139_08}   of ev'rything -- including how we'd face ...

 
{GOB_139_09}   ... the end-game that the devil jokes about.

{GOB_139_10}   If Boke did not shout BULLSHIT!, all black holes

{GOB_139_11}   would coalesce into your Sweet-Cow snout --

{GOB_139_12}   digesting humankind and all its goals ...

 
{GOB_139_13}   ... THEN you'd inhale eternity and FART!" //

{GOB_139_14}   "HA HA," says Cow and toots ' How Great Thou Art. '


GOSPEL OF BOKE {140 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_140_01}   DEMOCRACY AND JESUS / WE UNFREEZE

{GOB_140_02}   poor Pilate as he swims against the tide:

{GOB_140_03}   "YE HAVE A CUSTOM ... should the people please

{GOB_140_04}   on passover, that I can set aside ...

 
{GOB_140_05}   ... the charges 'gainst a prisoner -- your choice...

{GOB_140_06}   Will ye release this man here (Jesus)?" // "NO!,

{GOB_140_07}   Not this man, no. / Barabas! Hear our voice." //

{GOB_140_08}   / Yes hear the BULLSHIT-EATERS / smell the roe ...

 
{GOB_140_09}   / ... of something fishy going on today.

{GOB_140_10}   / Like when the air in Florida is fouled

{GOB_140_11}   / by screaming BULLSHIT-EATERS who will say

{GOB_140_12}   / whatever / like they'd all been Collin-Pow'll'd.

 
{GOB_140_13}   (DEMOCRACY so proudly that we hail

{GOB_140_14}   is meaningless when bullshit pulls its tail.)


GOSPEL OF BOKE {141 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_141_01}   BECAUSE HUMILIATION IS REQUIRED

{GOB_141_02}   of people at the mercy of the law

{GOB_141_03}   A SCOURGING AND A CROWN OF THORNS TRANSPIRED /

{GOB_141_04}   Then Pilate said again: "I FIND NO FLAW ...

 
{GOB_141_05}   ... IN THIS MAN, JESUS." // STILL High Jews cried out:

{GOB_141_06}   "WE HAVE A LAW / By our law he should die /

{GOB_141_07}   He made himself the Son of God!" they shout. //

{GOB_141_08}   (THEY'D KILL HIM JUST FOR SPEECH / LET'S AMPLIFY:

 
{GOB_141_09}   Not instrumental speech to rabble-rouse

{GOB_141_10}   to violence -- but strange prophetic words

{GOB_141_11}   that Pilate understood that to espouse

{GOB_141_12}   was not a crime, no more than songs of birds.)

 
{GOB_141_13}   But shouting bullshit-eaters can't be swayed,

{GOB_141_14}   and so Christ's crucifixion he OK'd.


GOSPEL OF BOKE {142 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_142_01}   AS SPIKES ARE NAILED IN JESUS' HANDS AND FEET,

{GOB_142_02}   OUR GOSPEL CHOIR STANDS UP TO HAVE THEIR SAY ...

{GOB_142_03}   / We're Crazy 'Bout The Law / We're God's elite!

{GOB_142_04}   / Lock up the text and throw the key away!

 
{GOB_142_05}   / Not even God Himself can change the rules!

{GOB_142_06}   / Just look what happened when this moron tried!

{GOB_142_07}   / We hope this lesson teaches all the fools

{GOB_142_08}   / The Keepers of The Law can't be defied!

 
{GOB_142_09}   / The Sabbath's coming quick, so break his legs.

{GOB_142_10}   / The Law requires this murder to be done

{GOB_142_11}   / before we praise the lord / [THIS SONG NOW SEGUES]

{GOB_142_12}   / He's dead already? / Good, there goes the sun.

 
{GOB_142_13}   / We're Crazy FROM the Law / It will not change!

{GOB_142_14}   (Good Lord, that Jesus Christ was truly strange.)


GOSPEL OF BOKE {143 of 154} -- by BOKE (duh!)

{GOB_143_01}   "JEWS BAD!" says China Girl // "BOKE BAD!" says Monk:

{GOB_143_02}   "JEWS HUMAN / DO GOD'S WILL / MAKE UPGRADE WORK.

{GOB_143_03}   // "GOD STRANGE / ODD TALE / THE END? IT KINDA STUNK."

{GOB_143_04}   // "THE END?! / NOT DONE! / STAY TUNED / DON'T GO BERZERK!"

 
{GOB_143_05}   // "BAD MONKEY! / WHAT BERZERK? / MONK GO WORM HOLE! "

{GOB_143_06}   // "BAD BOKE / ALL HIDE / NO WORMHOLE MONK TO GO."

{GOB_143_07}   // "HA HA! / WHERE COW? / COW NOSE / MONK GO PATROL!"

{GOB_143_08}   // "HA HA! / BAD CHINA GIRL / COW NOSE / YOU BLOW!"

 
{GOB_143_09}   // "COW NOSE! / COW SNOT! / MONK EAT! / HERE CHINA SPOON."

{GOB_143_10}   // "BAD BAD / BAD GIRL / GIRL SPOON / GIRL EAT / COW SNOT!"

{GOB_143_11}   // "MONK NOSE / COW BUTT / COW FART / HA HA / REAL SOON!!"

{GOB_143_12}   // "GIRL WIN / SWEET GIRL / GONE BAD / FROM BOKE / SHE GOT."

 
{GOB_143_13}   [Sweet Cow is keeping silent / There's no point

{GOB_143_14}   in letting Boke get your nose out of joint.]

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