Adam
and Cain
Like father.
No like son. |
Adam
Gets a Ribbing
She beckoned, “I, Eve,
Come into my cave,”
I was so naïve
I thought I was naïve. |
Agreeable
Amen
to all
amen-
ities. |
Ah,
Woes By Any Other Name
I wondered who woe was
But now I see
With more problems than Noah’s
Woe is me! |
Amazing
Grace
Damn hymn.
Damn her. |
Ars
Longa
You can’t take it with you
although
in the case of Van Gogh
It would be nice
to come back and get it. |
Being
God is no Picnic
His eye is on the sparrow
His eye to the praying mantis
But He just put his foot down
Where that poor little ant is. |
Birdbrain
Without physical fitness
My clothing would fit less
As God is my witness
(His eye’s on the witless). |
Confessional
Poem
Bless me, Reader,
For I have sinned.
It is four years
Since my last poem. |
Contamination
I have this pious fear
That God may have to be excluded from
our biosphere. |
Crowd
Pleaser
It’s morbid or thrilling
When a favorite dies.
God forbid or God willing
Whichever applies. |
Cruising
There
but for
W.R. Grace and God
go I. |
Divine
Scripture
The next one
who calls me
‘She’ is gonna
catch Hell. |
Felicific
Calculus
I figured out
This happy fact:
I’m not devout
But still intact. |
Flowering
Not for me the rose so red
And not the pink carnation.
No flowers please, send cash instead
To my next incarnation. |
Getting
Evolved
Go, Said God, you’ve paid your dues
And so I crawled from the primordial ooze.
Now let me say, without dismaying them
(those crawling out now), you never stop
paying them. |
Give
and Take
Give us
this day
our daily bread.
-us
On any
given day
I can give you bread.
-God |
In
the Beginning was the F-word
And God said
BE fruitful
and multiply
but don’t
talk about it. |
Good
News/Bad News
Concerned about the hereafter?
Well don’t be.
It will be there with joy and laughter.
You won’t be.
|
Grace
Notes
Thank you, Lord for
our food and drink
and our clever-
ness in express-
ing our thanks in
unrhymed freedom. |
Job
and the Amazing Technicolor M&M’s
I like the pretty little fellows
The oranges, the greens and yellows
I even like the tan.
But when I go to down one
I always grab a brown one
According to God’s plan. |
Modern
Day Parenting
Of all the problems
bothering Job
one of them wasn’t
his son’s pierced lobe.
|
Monday
the Rabbi Wrote Poems
The sword is
mightier than the
pen-
is. |
Missionary
Position
Say ‘No’ to Hell
Or go to Hell. |
Nearer
Thy God?
The morning’s at seven
And all that good stuff.
God’s in his Heaven.
I’m here. Close enough. |
Paradise
Adam
and God. |
Pro
Tempore
(to our seven-foot freshman)
Godspeed, with prayers:
Nunc Dimittis—
To the players
Who dunk and quit us. |
Punner’s
Envy
Do not be jealous
Of word-play inventions.
The road to Hell is
Paved with non-intentions. |
Reredos
I’ll do it
Re-do it
Re-redo it
But then
I won’t altar it again. |
Spooked
I’m really no priest
My confessor confessed
I’m one of my country’s
best spies.
But I’ll give you, at least,
If you want to be blessed,
A blessing in disguise. |
The
Gospel According to General Motors
We’d reach the stars
Would be empowered
If all our cars
Were G. M. powered.
|
The
Nation’s Infrastructure
It’s not the landlord
Who does the maintenance
And, Lord,
It surely ain’t tenants. |
The
Road to Hell is Paved with Good
Intentions
Tried.
Fried. |
There
Are No Atheists in Potholes
God- amn!
d |
Till
Death Do You Part
The spirit within you
Is here for the ride.
Its life will continue
When you’ve gone and died. |
Zen
and Zensibility
It’s like you’re yin and yang,
yourself
When things are so damned hopeless.
You feel you ought to hang yourself
And can’t, because you’re
ropeless. |
Saying
Amen to my Poems
I’m going to be a pest if I
Don’t hear anybody testify. |
Poetry
Reading
They say “Break a leg”
(good luck) in show biz
But as poets we beg
Ora pro nobis. |
The
Late (but unlamented) News
All’s right with the world
God’s in His Heaven
(as far as I know.
I’m asleep by eleven). |
