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\nDear God<\/p>\n
\nDear God<\/p>\n
Are you a Holy Man?
\nThe Holy Man asked me
\nIf you say that’s what I am
\nThen Holy I must be<\/p>\n
Are you bent on doing good?
\nNo I’m bent on getting straight
\nAnd what is it you’re addicted to?
\nMe? I’m hooked on fate.<\/p>\n
The Holy Man took off his Mask
\nUnderneath it was the Void
\nFrom whence echoed his ghostly voice
\nAs he recounted my soul’s Task<\/p>\n
You’ve been the Prodigal Father
\nYou’ve been the Last Round at the bar
\nYou’ve fucked it up so many times
\nNow listen to me carefully son,
\nDon’t fuck it all up again<\/p>\n
You thought that you were different
\nFor so very long
\nBut after all those lonely years
\nIt appears you’re much the same
\nAs every one<\/p>\n
We’re all a little bit Holy
\nWe’re all a tad Evil too
\nWe all get a bit salacious
\nWhen we’ve downed a shooter or two<\/p>\n
The books you’ve read, forget them
\nThey’re merely other people’s thoughts
\nMuch better to have your own<\/p>\n
And every woman that you pretended to love
\nWas your mother waiting to be forgiven
\nSo why not bury her at last
\nAfter all,
\nShe’s already dead<\/p>\n
Forget all of that bullshit
\nThe self pity you’ve grown accustomed to.
\nTime isn’t money
\nMoney is money
\nAnd it’s better to have a lot of it
\nThan none.<\/p>\n
At this the Holy Man took off
\nHe left me at my midnight table pondering
\nHis words that echoed in the abysmal dark<\/p>\n
I’m not sure how much of what he said was true
\nHow much of it was false
\nI downed my glass of trouble
\nDowned my glass of sorrow too<\/p>\n
Drove home in my chariot called Redemption
\nSat down and wrote this little poem to You.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear God Are you a Holy Man? The Holy Man asked me If you say that’s what I am Then Holy I must be Are you bent on doing good? No I’m bent on getting straight And what is it you’re addicted to? Me? I’m hooked on fate. The Holy Man took off his Mask […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,11,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaganof","category-poetry","category-south-african-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-aD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1734,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/20\/holy-crap-that-is-a-lot-of-snow\/","url_meta":{"origin":659,"position":0},"title":"holy crap that is a lot of snow","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 December 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Seriously. 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