Labberneck

Canto 26

Tinnitus is the joy of oversound frequencies leaving the inner

Ear forever and the deaf do not suffer sound and the blind do

Not suffer sights and the dumb do not suffer aloud

God’s pledge of non-allegiance His iphone become itouch

Out of touch with the touchwas and from joy Churchill blessed

Gin and from joy Paine’s freewill and from joy Herr Hesse’s

Watchtower and from joy Tamerlane’s falconry and kite fighting

Whale hunting and from joy Mary knelt at the cross and from joy

Abraham’s knife and from joy the mystery at the depth of the heart

Why canst thou not remember thy brother’s suffering thy sister’s

Draught                                    Thinkst thou not upon thy future wreck

And callst thou upon God as Moses called to halve the sea and God

Responded nigh to him His beloved then gave all a way through shell

And fin where none before had gone through that mystery why do we

Not remember God’s love outside the tomb noli me tangere for He is

Risen but not yet sanctified His grace might overpower our suffering

Let us not live in it but rather look back in nostalgia as love denies

Faith and faith denies love useless love exists at the pole useless

Reading renders us awash in faith for gods exist as long as our minds

Exist in the mystery of substance wrinkled and grey chemicals firing

And current sparking makes what was rational perplexing what was

Empirical puzzling for suffering is not punishment suffering is not

A test and suffering is not redemption for joy comes in the morning

Dawn brings surcease at least for a moment joy shines forth and love

Exceeds faith and intercession faults fools Satan remits our debts

Apophis will swallow us          torture ala Sino

Forget ‘bout suffering              who has time for it anyway

Mix a drink and drink it           pretend you’re the god of martinis

Put the Stoli in the freezer        priority ala Rus

Forget ‘bout suffering              have a shot or two with the homeless

Only the ones with blogs         not in real life of course

Apophis will swallow us          tactics ala Pruss

They have a space                   who needs a house when you have a blog

Heaven has no memory           of suffering

Dean and Dino Jr. have no memory and Sammy and Frank have no memory

They make me feel young       fly me to the moon

Let a little love into Ur-life      open another bottle of Tanqueray, baby!

Green ones from the Raj          memories of empire

The wreck of nations               forget ‘bout suffering

Remember the good times       we’ll meet again

Some enchanted evening         put a nickel in the jukebox

Set ‘em up Joe                         make it one for my baby

Forget ‘bout suffering              angels don’t read the Times

They don’t listen to the radio   Melissa Block can weep all she wants

Dead children don’t shake a stick and live parents don’t shake a stick

Forget ‘bout suffering              angels can’t read : won’t read

Angels are illiterate                  I think

Jesus was illiterate                   I think

Moses was illiterate                  I’m sure

Forget ‘bout suffering              do you believe an ounce of your tears?

Do you even have a measuring cup scribed in ounces?

OZ is the abbrev for ounce      ounce kinda rhymes with dunce

Looks a little like it, too           facile and facade both guard

The same things                       two words two indulgences

Send in the popes                    there have to be popes

If something is unspeakable well then how do you pronounce it?

Abu Ghraib, anyway?              Medyedev, for that matter?

Disco Explosion can cause suffering but abates in the face of joy

Absolves us of afterlife absolves Pierce’s left knee ice or heat : heat or ice

How does sacrifice work anyway how does gene therapy work?

Genetically modified Mary in order for Joseph’s lineage to David

To matter birnam wood born of woman yet suffering is a lesson

In itself and causes us not only to remember but to not forget

What has caused our pain hence can be nonsensical because when we

Associate the pain we remember the afflicter as well as the affliction

Hence revenge hence the furies hence blood guilt and the bonfire

Fear of pain brings hate brings violence brings fury argumentum

Ad bacculum convinces the weak that the strong are strong

Supernova destroys both star and light the weak will inherit the earth

Because they are many and the strong are few the poor will vanquish

The rich because the rich are few forget ‘bout suffering and heaven

Will forget you forget ‘bout suffering and god will not erase your tears

Forget ‘bout suffering and forget ‘bout free will in heaven know

The mind and know your own will for now we see through a glass

Then all will be revealed for now we live as fools but then we

Will endure as wizened heaven moved so let me and the rest of us

Old farts drive out disaster for we have been silent for too long ‘bout

How to conjugate irregular French verbs like suffering sufferers

Forget ‘bout suffering              American drones don’t have pilots

Imams drone like American pilots and Egypt has drones in jail

Sudan has crones in mass gardens and the Pope says mass in garden

Teach the children well            to wipe our asses in the retirement homes

The future is written                decrepitude then death

Bobby the K                            with that halo

Bobby the S                             with those feeding tubes

Forget ‘bout suffering              there’s no interest in it

No APY and no APR and no CDOs and no subprimo

Supremo like Dante                 flaccid over Beatrice

Larks return like Noah’s ark like Horace’s canary and Catullus

And the old man riverboat       toilet training is suffering

Birth is suffering                      I’m sure

Contemplation is suffering      I think

Conception is suffering           to a degree

Blaming gods is suffering        to a degree

Idiocy is suffering                   I’m sure

Theodicy is suffering               I think

He has one rough hand and has given the other and for that is

Honoured by the heroes          his neck white was as the lily

There too he strong was as a champion and knew the taverns

Well in every town and every innkeeper and barmaid better

Than a leper or a beggestere    the king of fairies came

With his company came to hunt him all about with din

Cry and with blowing and hounds also with him barking

The hurt was whole that he had had in his neck and bright

Green belt on his body he bore oblique like a baldric bound

At his side below his left shoulder laced in a knot

He bare him up                        he bare him down

He bare him into an orchard    brown

He lay as a thane should          near his lord

He knew the more surely that his life’s end had come

The full number of his days    sorrow is made new

As memory of kinsmen moves through his mind

He greets them with glad words eagerly looks on them

A company of warriors            The future is written

Decrepitude then death            Bobby the K with that halo

Bobby the S with those feeding tubes green ones from the Raj

Apophis will swallow us          and say, “Chi sei?”

“Io son quell’Ezzelino che no crede’ che il mondo fu creato

Da un ebreo.”                          Woe to them that conquer

With armies and whose only right is their power