POSSIBILITIES

I will probably be away from this blog for a little bit for medical-type stuff. The six or eight of you should talk among yourselves for the next week or so, read the old posts, or put up arcane coments.
Also, rejoice! Rejoicing is important.

Li Po called on the Moon
And his shadow to drink
And to dance with him.
Who knows but if you call
They will answer you?

Sin and Death built a road
Where no road could be
Perhaps your morning bus
Travels that road.
Examine the other riders!

 

RECASTING

In some world where they do things better

Paradise Lost is a comedy, ending in a marriage

The evidence is all there: Eve and Satan

Were meant for each other. Milton could not

Conceal the strength of their attraction;

Satan softens when he sees her, almost forgetting

Who he is; she hears music when he speaks.

Adam means well, but is the fiance foisted on Eve –

The role Ralph Bellamy plays as he waits

For Cary Grant to cut him out again –

In Act Last, God would play out his role:

The Angry Father Who Finally Forgives

And blesses the errant lovers. Jesus, I think,

Would do well as the wily servant who sets things right.

After the climax, we might see Sin and Death

Performing their vaudeville routines

Which somehow never grow old.