I'll try to make my comments as civilly as possible:
Jesus Matador - brilliant. Looking forward to more.
Poem the Second: Glad to have been privy to its inspiration - and with that I lift my glass to the friendliest town in the ol' USA - Pittsburgh.
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You feel free, Sir, to refer to my poems as brilliant any old time you like. With regard to Pittsburgh, well, I think I've told you I can't wait to go back.
ReplyDeletePoem the First inexplicably brought on a spew of Rock and Roll lyrics to my mind (if that is not too weighty a word for what I use to think with)
ReplyDelete"Until you've seen this trash can dream come true, you stand at the edge, while people run you through." Bernie Taupin
"And they pulled him out of the cold, cold ground, and they put him in a suit of lights." Elvis Costello ("traje de luces" being of course what "killers" or "matadors" wear.)
Poem the Second for me was like memos from the Big Desk, which brings us to the question, and I am absolutely serious when I say I ask this with all respect, Is technically the Holy Ghost a "motherfucker". This is more complcated than it seems. Are we going with the historical Jesus who had syblings? Also can we absolutely equate impregnation with "getting fucked"? The horror of the modern world is that "eternal damnation" sounds almost comforting, that something that exists should last, I mean, there doesn't seem to be any problem with resources or sustainability in this particular case.
Boy, i can't tell you how much i like 'Memos from the Big Desk'. That your own, George?
ReplyDeleteAlso - I like the notion that resources and sustainability become intertwined for you with eternal damnation.
With regard the poem, I did not intend for the big HG to make an appearance; though maybe i misunderstand the impetus of your question, and it was inspired by the poem but not drawn from the poem? at any rate, in general, i am interested in making the bible characters as utterly human as possible (as you well know by now), and to be perfectly honest it pleases me to have the Blessed Mother not only saying motherfucker BUT ON TOP OF THAT showing a distinct lack of concern as to the well-being of the reader's immortal soul. i mean the reader may make the cut or not, but Mary just doesn't give a shit. She's likely tired, and probably wants a cigarette and a vodka tonic and just wants to close her eyes for five minutes at the end of the day, you know?
In Parentheses for the Passion, one of the first plays I wrote and produced here, the Virgin Mary is thinking over GTF's (or GTSTBF, to be more exact; "God the soon to be Father") proposal. The Virgin Mary as a working class Jewish minority, is thinking her future kid might need some divine help. Times are rough, especially for a carpenter in the desert, in fact she says, "If it weren't for the Romans crucifying everybody all over the place, there wouldn't be any call for woodworking around here at all." I brought HG into the picture because I immediately wondered what (or perhaps who) the Virgin meant when she referred to a "motherfucker". And yes, clearly we have caught her on a rough day. It could be degrading to be assumed, sort of like cutting in line, or not really being listened to. Memos from the Big Desk is mine as far as I know, and feel free to use it in any way you like!!
ReplyDeletei may create a page called Memos from the Big Desk.
ReplyDelete(These poems in question were Jesus Matador and Jesus Died For Somebody's Sins But Not Mine)
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