GOD IS A GANGSTER
A play, in one act
By
Nick Mancuso
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
(inspired by conversations with Freddie Kohl, 60’s rock star in Malibu, California)
Lights up to reveal in center stage an alleyway.Its Christmas eve. A homeless tramp (God) is rummaging though the garbage. He looks up towards us, the audience..
MUSIC UP.CHRISTMAS MUSIC.JINGLE BELLS TO I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS. TRAFFIC NOISE.
GOD
(coughing, smokers cough)
Hey..you..gotta smoke..Can I buy a smoke off ya?..yeah yeah I know I’m not supposed to smoke but what the fuck I’m God..I can do whatever I want…Cancer??I am cancer!! Who gives a shit…I’m freezing..
(He walks haltingly towards us, limping. A cat howls..)
Shut the fuck up..I said shut the fuck up..Cant stand cats..always trying to steal the show..to think the Egyptians worshipped them..I taught em a lesson or two..plague..boils..locusts..a few drownings..sent a few murderous angels to complete the job…but my people..the chosen people ..I didn’t touch..I has other things in store for them..but those nasty Egyptians insisted on worshiping cats..stupid dirty cats..with fleas and lices and god knows what else..I mean I know what else…I gotta lie down..I’m exhausted…People have no idea how much energy it takes to run the Universe..you have any idea?…Talk about calories..I don’t have ta worry about my weight..It never stops..galaxies..universes..time-space continuum,quarks,black holes, to say nothing of the billions and I mean billions of creatures wandering around needing food, shelter….love..family..children..house..money..food..to say nothing of keeping the clock ticking…u try it? Here!
HOLDS OUT OLD BROKEN CLOCK
Go ahead make it tick.
THE CLOCK STARTS TICKING.
A CAT MEOWS,COMES TO HIM
Come here pussy cat..do not fear what they fear… say to those with fearful hearts, “Be strong, do not fear; your God will come, he will come with vengeance; with divine retribution he will come to save you.”Well wont he?? You hungry? Here I happen to have an open tin of Canadian salmon, from the upper streams of the Fraser River where the giant sturgeon once upon a time floated by..yup..saved it just for you..go ahead eat it..its Canadian..salmon is going, the cod already gone, so thick Giovanni Caboto, or John Cabot to you anglos, couldn’t steer his ship through the shallows..i made so many..an abundance..and what did you guys do? Ate em all up. Yum! Yum!
SINGS
“fish heads, fish heads
greasy little fish heads
fish heads fish heads
eat em up yum…”
everything gone.I’m standing on stone. Christmas eve and its raining.No body gives a shit. Why should i? Global warming? Gimme a break.I’l show you warming.Look into the centre of the sun. You want hot? I’ll show you hot.
(PAUSES)
A SIREN, THEN A HUMAN SHOUT- A DRUNK RAILING OBSCENITIES)
Nice..real nice…sir ? sir? And the son of man hath not a rock to lay down his head…all around me men are freezing here in the land of abundance..and the son of man hath not a place to lay down his head…
HE PLACES IT ON THE GROUND.HE STROKES THE IMAGINARY CAT..
So do not fear, for I am with you; may ye not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.For the riches of the wicked are stored for the rightous…
TO PASSERBYES
Sir..sir..its Christmas Eve..Could ya help out an old altar boy..father..will work for food…and I aint even hungry..
TO CAT
You still hungry? Tough shit I aint got no more food food far ya!! Join the club cat….but hey I could make it come out of the sky if I wanted to just like that swami bupkuskananda in India only he aint God, he is a swami, swami, bologni…hows about a salami sandwich with pickles and mustard?
THE CAT SCRAMS
(He makes a face..)
Love…hate…love…would love a bologny sandwich meself with wonder bread and mustard of love.. and a good cold Molson’s..beer..to make thee fart..Anaconda lord of farts and disappointments..howd I end up up on the street me a former altar boy with so much promise..but promises aren’t enuff…
You see that’s your problem..always love me..love me..you don’t get it its not love me…take care of me..please me..its love you..take care of you..please you..please me..love you love me why don’t you love please don’t leave me I love you I love coffee I love the smell of napalm in the morning I love to..ah bullshit…I could use some real food..and a good hot cuppa java…Tim Hortons..only they wont let me in on accounta I stink..I need me some teeth..and the son of man hath not a place to…but the reptiles do…they do…
HE HUMS
THEN SINGS BURSTING INTO SONG
Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm
Hmmm hmmmm hmmm let the sun shine’the sun shine in
Klet the sun shine
Let the sun shine
The suuuun shine in…
MORE VERSES UNTIL HE IS DOING IT BROADWAY STYLE
Silent night..holy fucking night..the rain comes down..as the rain comes down..i began to realize that every single drop had a particular meaning..it was amessage..you ever notice that? Whats it doing raining in the middle of winter?each drop had a particular meaning..what happened??
(He halters..stares at someone in the audience,slobbers)
What are you looking at buddy?Or buddy asses.. You looking at me..I don’t see anybody else around here?? What are you looking at??What do you think you see? A bum, a homeless wreck of a human being?..a churk gangster is that what yu think ?..that..God is (wait for it) a ..gangster is that so..God is a gangster???yeah yeah I go to the movies too…love the gangster movies if I wasnt god the only other thing I wanted to be was a gangster…god as a gangster…funnneee…not
(pauses)
I get so pissed off these days..Maybe I got a blood sugar disorder..maybe hyperinsulinism..thyroid problems..who knows…but the reptiles…oh they..so smart…
HE GRABS HIS THROAT
.I mean I’m billions of years old..I mean old..I mean really old, I got a right to be sick,medical insurance..wheee, forget it stop payments and you got bupkus..and I don’t get the girls anymore ..they don’t give me a second look-no one does..im a bum in a world of abundance. Yeah…abundance millions of millionaires and while I starve in misery in this rat infested alley there are people hooting and hollerin and have great old time having parties and throwing away more food in one night that I get to eat in a week but hey who gives a fuck im god, No when I was young when I was young..forget about it..then I had that son of mine and bango its all over..He gets all the action..and I get bupkus..What night is this? Oh holy night?? Silent night??
CAR HORN SCREECHES AND LIGHTS PASS HIM BY..
Hey hey asshole..Whats the rush??Ahhhhh!!! Ahhhh!!! Ahhhhhh!!!!
“there was an ancient mariner/and he stoppeth one of three/by thy long beard and glittering eye/why stoppest thou me??”
My feet are killing meMy toenails are going black and falling off.Does he write? Does he call he call? I know he thinks of me,he’s thinking about me all the time but does he call, does he write??eh,invisible dreams eh..whats a postage stamp cost?? ..and then..that younger brother of his..holy ghost…holy mackarel..invisible dreams..doent even breath like he never existed..what a family..Now when I was..king..of the hill king of Sparta..and top of the world.. it was different..communication is the ketto everything..communicate guys!..Ineed a drink of aqua velva..no wonder I drink, you would too with kids like that..
HE TAKES BOTTLE OF AQUA VELVA FROM HIS POCKET AND GULPS IT DOWN,
AH HA!!! WHOOO! A little dab’ll do ya!!! It did me!!!
(He leans against a garbage and rubs his feet. To an imaginary passerby- a shadow)
Hey how ya doin?Have a blessed night.. Got thee some spare change for a meal?I could use a meal once in a while with a clean table cloth.Got thee any?Have a blessed night and oh Merry Christmas to youse and go fuck yourself!!..You think they give a fuck?..someone tonight auctions off a bottle of champagne 6000 bucks and gulps it down in his 10,000 dollar a night suite while a couple hookers suck his cock own on each ball,have a blessed night.unto thee and unto thee!!. one blonde, one oriental-it’s the perfect combo..but I aint complaining…its ok ..i aint hungry no more..have a blessed night…peace on earth..yeah..pieces of earth is what you are…
Freedom of choice is what you want
Freedom from choice is what yah get
“fish heads, fish heads-eat them up yum..
HE CONTINUES TO HUM. IT SNOWS.
Snow.snow.make up your mind. Or should I say
Make up mine…
SHADOWS WALK BY HIM,CRISSCROSSING,SHADOWS ON SHADOWS.
No no no..aint gonna go to rehab..no no no.I’m God I don’t need rehab, I found Jesus..hell I made him….I’ aint complaining..everything is perfect..my hands are perfectly freezing…that’s all..my hands and my feet are as cold as ice and at 10 below the cold moves right up to my knees,into the bones..its great..and I’m havin trouble breathin its great and at 20 below it gets real intresting
And at 40 ..fogget about it cause ya cant..fogget…about.. it
I’ll start a fire
HE PACKS SOME OF THE CRAP TOGETHER. AND TRIES TO LIGHT. GOES OUT. TRIES AGAIN. TAKES OUOUT SMALL CAN OF KEROSENE. IT LIGHTS. SQUIRTS SOME OF INTO HIS MOUTH…
Mmm mmmm delisccccccccc
HE FALLS OVER AND LIES THERE FOR ABOUT A MINUTE. THEN HE STIRS….
Fuck me on a small stick…head…ache…oh…
HE RETCHES. STOPS. STARTS.
HE STARTS A COUGHING FIT
..other than that I’m ok..gotta lot to be grateful for..thank you God for aftershave lotion…thank you Jesus… wanna lay down on a bed or roses but i lay me down on a bed of nails..i am born from the wind and my name is no-one…
HE GULPS THE REST OF IT
Hey you!!!
TO PASSERBYE
Come back here!!
I’m God asshole…have a blessed night ..I hope you get all yr Christmas shopping done..have a blessed night..
HE RETCHES. HE IS SICK, VERY SICK..
“Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of troubles. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive;(well he’s keeping me alive..) and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies. The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.”Assholer!!!I’m standing on stone!!!
HE PANTS FOR A FULL MINUTE. THEN.
HE THROWS THE BOTTLE OF AQUAVELVA
Assholers…
BLACKOUT
Scene 2
THUNDER
LIGHTS UP TO REVEAL HIM IN THE SAME POSITION..
Go ahead call the fuckin cops…
Ah fuck you! Fuck all of ya fuck yaz all and the horse ya rode in on, yer jags and yes Mercedes and yes private jets, livin behind walls and gates in your olivine suits and yr goose and duck soirees and yr yr fuckin orgies and ..wandering around in yer fancy olivine suits, Dolce e Gabbana, yr suit screwing everyone with your important business appointments,fer time is money yer broads, yer houses, yer tribes,yer bribes yer countries, yes important livesvanity vanity for all is vanity saith the preacher.. fuck you all- I got a mind to..ah forget about it…cause ya cant..forget about it cause ..ya..cant..what about me??Where are my gifts??Where’s my Christmas Eve gifts???fogge about it cause ya cant!! Its Christmas Eve where is my fucking Lear jet??Where??where’s my fuckin lear jet??I’m God don’t I deserve it all???Wheres my cute little bundles of joy???
BLACKOUT
THEN IN DARKNESS
WE HEAR
(sings)
“fish heads..fish heads..tiny …little..
“no aint gonna go to rehab..no no no..” Fogget about it…
LIGHTS UP. HE’S ON THE GROUND, HOLDING HIS HEAD..THE AQUA VELVA NEW RESTORED.HE LOOKS IN SHOCK.
How the fuck I do that?
“Give ear oh heavens that I may speak!!”
hear oh earth the words of my mouth!!
No I went in for that controlled drinkin’ thing the govt has got for us alkies and guess what it worked..I control every drink I want..now I’m gonna control some more..”
Works every time. Controlled frink number one.
HE SHOOTS IT BACK.
Controlled drink number 2
HE SHOOTS IT BACK
Controlled drink number 3
HE SHOOTS IT BACK
Controlled drink number 4
HE SHOOTS IT BACK
Controlled drinking 223345
(Pulls out another bottle of Screech..”Control this!!
HE TAKES A SWIG
Buncha anal assholers…
SCREECH!!!SCREECH!!!
Now you might be wanderin what God is doin drinkin and smoking!! So what??I’m a marborough man but I cant get em up here in the Northlands..just injun tabbakki..and it makes me cough..fogget about it…
Ya see that’s my problem. I don’t forget nothing..4235 B.C, July 4th 4.02 pm –right here..(points to his head)
In this noggin..I mean everything..everywhere that ever was that ever will be in every planet ..every universe..every godddam things down to the molecular level is right in here..And if I forget about it…poof gone…vanished..You think I wont remember this? This is..like a crystal..a cosmic computer..you cant even begin to imagine pr understand how could ya??..locked forever in my memory, forever..and none youse rich fucks will get away with anything cause I am Toth and Siva , Horus and Zoroaster,Ahura Mazda, and Mithras, the Buddah and if I forget abut poof –gone-like it never existed!! Like youse never existed!!
That’s a big responsibility right? You try it on for size..
Go ahead .. I dare ya…remember everything..forever and ever..now..cant do it can ya..i can..thats why im God and yur not..all inside of this here noggin
HE SLURPS A LONG WALLOP OF SWEET CHEAP WINE, COUGHS..AND HOOTS…HE RUMAGES THRU HIS KNACKSACK..
Heah it is..
IT’S A PHOTGRAPH OF THIS MAN WITH A WIFE AND DAUGHTER IN FRONT OF A HOME-SUMMER
This was me..10 years ago…HE POINTS,,that’s my lovely wive Sarah and that’s my little girl..She died..and Sarah ran away…and this man here..why..that used to be me..before I was God…
HE RUBS THE PHOTO AND THEN PUTS IT AWAY IN THE SACK
Theres a couple a things I wann get clear about..and don’t get me wrong..I appreciate the smoke..but Life aint fair..Get it through yr heads once and for all..Get that piece of relevant information at the beginning of the journey and you wont have any trouble at the end..
( He coughs)
what is this..? Natural tobacco. What the fuck is natural?
Its all natural..I made it ..its natural..Plastic??Its natural..Comes from trees don’t it?..anythin I make is natural atomic bombs, natural,garbage natural..recycling or not..natural..whats with the recycling?? Save the planet??..get it straight,cant ya ..its saves yourselves natural..organic..living..alive..tunas cans? Save yourselves..Natural..cardboard boxes? Natural..sodium hydrochloride..natural..formaldahyde? natural..everything is natural..i made it so its natural..prove to me its not..Save yourselves..
Go ahead .. I dare ya…
HE SIPS.
Theres a couple a things I wann get clear about..and don’t get me wrong.by the way.I appreciate the smoke..
( He coughs)
what is this..? Natural tobacco. What the fuck is natural?
Its all natural..I made it ..its natural..Plastic??Its natural..Comes from trees..anything..get it straight ..its natural. Didn’t I just say that?? What the fuck is wrong with me..didnt I just say it.organic..living..alive..you know why? Cause I made..Use a little of that God given logic…Did I just repeat myself..? I think I’m getting alzheimers..I’m turning into a senile old fart, a toxic whore of an ole fuck.Well that would make sense..im old I am the Ancient of Days…..what happened??What happened to me??
(pauses)
Ok..so you might wonder how I ended up here,I thought I told you shut up. Get thee behind me,Satan….I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!..in this alleyway..What difference would that make..I’m everywhere aint I?I’m here and I am everywhere..(voice)
“I am the eternal circle, whose circumference is everywhere and who centre is nowhere..i am..that I am..”Tell them…
I’m not prejudiced, youre all the same to me except for you jews..your chosen, your special… but.its all the same to me here there everywhere no where underwear,its all the same..the problem is its not all the same to you..is it?is it
Be honest.About it. To me its all the same , to yu its different.If I say unto you the sun shineth on the good and wicked alike, you tell me theres a special room in hell reserved for people like me,kind of an anthroposphcal point of you,anthrogenic know what I mean..only I aintpeople.I’m God.But you think I’m a bum and human being and I am..a bum and human..but I’m God
And god said to Moses; “see I have set before you today, life and good, death and evil- you shall not cross over this Jordan…!!
(CHANGES VOICE AND ACCENT, HISPANIC)
“let me splain sumin do you..sarah was jewish but I married her anyway..she was my childhood sweetheart and we were sweet on each other from the beginning..She had..HE STUTTERS..she hadda hadda..Abi..Abigale..Oh dear God in heaven..my darling little girl..where did yu go..To Heaven..dont you worry baby..pappas going to be there soon..sh sh sh don’t cry..oh dear god in heaven..and the Sarah her heart broke into a million pieces and they gave her the meds and she lost her mind and she ran away, just ran ran away..I’m God..G.O.D.god god god god help me god god am god..sarah…sarah..sarah..
AS HE WEEPS AND PRAYS HE IS TRANSFORMED AND HE RISES.
BLACK OUT
SCENE 3
LIGHTS UP
STARING HARD INTO AUDIENCE
YOU don’t believe do you??. You want a magic trick, a miracle of some kind don’t you like bending a spoon. Then you say it was a trick anyway. Or making a beautiful broad appear out of the thin air.
HE TAKES A FORK FROM HIS KNAPSACK AND BENDS IT WITH HIS HANDS..
See its bent. You figure it out how I did that…
A BEAUTIFUL BROAD APPEARS OUT OF THE THIN AIR.
Then you say its done with mirrors.
SHE DISAPPEARS..
There now do you believe me now??…no no not at all. I created this entire fucking universe and everything and everyone on it and I keep to creating it nanosecond by nano,in it, within it, without it and you act like its nothing out of the ordinary like its an everyday occurrence as a matter of fact.You create a universe why don’t you one with 11 sides…??
And you’s rather be somewhere else. Say Tijuanna, with a couple of the best lookin Mexican whores and bottle of tequila suckin on your Johnson….
You’d rather be somewhere elseright?..say the south pacific in your own ranchero with a bevy of dark hued beatiies bringing you pina colada and suckin on your johnsons..or the south of france with a couple of sexy mademoiselles you guessed it… or the south anything as long as its south and then when you get there you wanna north..which is it?you want north? I’’l give you north..
Its like the word creation..which is it? Creation is what?This? this aint creation?anyone know what this is I mean this..let me spain it to you..creation is what is..is ..what ..is- get it now?its this.this is this.om tat sam.i am that I am get it. But ya don’t.a don’t get it.do yas??
A SIREN CALLS AND LIGHTS FLASH
Hey you know what tonight is don’t ya? That’s right its Christmas eve-my sons birthday..Let me ask you something..don’t you get a little confused sometimes..Imean the crucifiction..concentration camps..terrorist bombings..all in my name..kinda weird aint it..my son shows up spreads the good news..love thy neighbor..love thine enemy..be nice to each other ..loveone another and then bango a few years later your killing each other in his name..my name..whats with that?
Deus vult
Will of god
Zing off wid yer head
You looking?To Fuck with me? Fuck with me?You wanna fuck with me??
I may be a homeless old tramp but what the fuck are you??I got a degree I went to the Universty of Fuck HI went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And the ravens brought me bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and I drank of the brook.I…I..
CONFUSED AND DAZED, STARING AS THOUGH LISTENING TO SOMETHING DISTANT..
A TRAIN HOOTS
I love trains..when I was a kid..I grew up near the tracks and I heard em hoot in the deep heart of the night warm in my fathers house…warm..what happened..lord? lord?
Why am I talking to myself..
BEAT, THEN..BLACKOUT
LIGHTS UP. THE TRAMP IS STANDING HE IS HOLDING A POINTER WHICH HE USES TO MAKES HIS POINT, JABBING AND PUNCHING IN ALL DIRECTIONS,
Take the current situation. 6 billions people.3 billion of ya making under 90 cents a day.you know 20 percent of the children right here in this city are living in poverty and going to bed hungry..You know there’s over 3 million people people..but youyou just keep worshipping me high and mighty… Now half of yas worship me using one name and the other half worshipme using some other cockamamie name and the other half.yeah I know ya cant half 3 halfs,why not..? worship me in a another guise and then the other half..you get my drift and the whole of the halfs don’t add up to nothing because none of yas and I mean no-one and I include mother Teresa and Gandhi and the Dalai Lama in the equation seem to know anything about anything when it comes to taking care of each other..love thy neighbor?ITS MORE LIKE FUCK THY NEIGHBOR..
What’s with that? Are you guys for real? You seriously think I don’t know wats going on? That excuse my French cant fucking see what the fuck is going on on planet earth nowadays..including the French..that im blind or something. That you can get away wiz it?You reptilian cocksuckers, hiding behind your walls and your desks, behind barbed wire, in your private jets and immured from the prying eyes of the world over 5 percent of you millionaires and the rest living a life of misery and slavery and war and drugs and alcohol, dying like flies.acting like flies..i’m tired..i can breath..
HE STARTS TO WHEEZE AND COUGH.
Yeah you think I’m a drunk and a homeless tramp but I am god…I was there when they chopped off your heads…
And that it twas every thus no matter what I said or did..turn you to pillars of salt..drown you engulf you in flames..earthquakes floods whatever..you come back..youre sorry you apologize to me..to my mother to my son..etc etc and then the next day do it over again..wats wiz that??
Unbeleivable..She throws me out.On the street. For the lips of a strange woman whose lips drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
(He rises and dusts himself…looks around)
This place is a rat hole- You guys make more garbage than anyone else in the universe ..whats with the garbage?
YOU ALL STINK UP THE PLACE!!
The problem..with youse.. is that you like to sit around all day …sit around and make trouble for everybody- lets start with Adam and eve, your mommi and your poppi
Not so nice.Not nice people.And look at their kids. You think it was a coincidence one of them killed the other one. A random happening??Like Columbine??
I give them gardens, I put in pear trees, cherry trees flowers, rhodendrons, hippos, pussy cats, fluffly coulds- lets face it was beautiful- nice and warm so you don’t need to wear no clothers..no insects what can I tellya? –these I made later, no scorpions, later, no rattlesnakes, later, no man eating tigers later,spiders, coachraches, later-one snake,one lousy snake,- a small one and one apple tree for effect- and I think to myself- leave the apple tree- what do you think- apples grow on trees?? Well they do but you know what I mean??Leave the apple tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil-god and evil-leave it..
Eve.
Eve. Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing.Yeah right..like that wife of mine running off with my kid and my boss..the two of them..not a word you coulda have knocked me over..
Eve, eve , eve-nice ass, perfect tits- let me tell you…like bunnies…lots of bunnies,the first playboy bunny that ever was..Beautiful, naked.Eve.OK so I made her from some ribs, so what, look at the results..forEven in laughter the heart is sorrowful.
CHANGES VOICE
Eat ye not of the tree of the knowledgeof good and evil.
In other words stay the fuck away. Stay. The fuck.Whats the big deal? Away.From the fucking tree and the fucking apples.Think of it as a window display..for effect..
Whats so difficult about that. Eat watermelon. Eat bananas eat pineapples, eat kiwi,eat figs..- no apples. Is it..that.. so hard? No tell me true= Was I asking too much?I wanna know..What was so hard about that? –Eat ye not of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Leave it alone. Mind your own business. Go about your day. But leave it alone..but noooooo that wasn’t good- you needed an extra admonition-leave it alone or I’ll knock er lights out.
And that’s what I did what I was forced to do…you never listen…
Let there be light. Let me shed a little light on the equation. Could we have the house lights please…
Yeah I know I know this is supposed to be a play but come on I’m God..
You sir were you from?
AUDIENCE MEMBERS STATES PLACE
Where the fuck is that?? Oye ah right. Oi gevalt im losing it…my memory..have you ever been betrayed??
Let me ask you sir was it too much to ask? No no tell me true…Was it ? One stinking apple??
Forget about it sit down…anybody else..ok turn off the lights…
BACK TO BEING A BUM
You know the rest of it. Decay death working in the steel mills, starvation, old age, a total fuckup.Over one stinking apple.But it was the principal of the thing. I give you free rent,free food, free fucks, even free booze and one simple request- eat ye not of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Notice I don’t say good vs evil, goodandevil, one word goodandevil, notice? Goodand devil..get it? And you got steelmilltowns and ethnic cleaning.Ok that’s it.dim the lights. Let there be dim..
HOUSE LIGHTS DIM DOWN
After a while ,,even I lose my patience and I start with the thunderbolts and the quakes and the floods..Are you starting to get it..let me tell something..im a nice guy.. but don’t piss me off-what is it with you people??I mean all of you..
HI NOISE OF A JET PLACE TAKING OFF
Now take Noah..there was a good guy..gets drunk fucks one of his daughter..Take David, handsome intelligent ..bright ..smart..falls for this broad .. gets her husband killed off so he can fuck her..Nice guy..Solomon…a million wives.. brilliant.. whats with the wives..harems..bordellos..you just cantt get enough.and he’snot the only one..the whole book is full of oldmen screwing young broads, fucking their maids their daughter, screwin around on their wives and then getting pissed off when god ie ME decides to send a few opillars of fire and sturm unt drung to burn em up and stop them from knocking in the doors of honest people in order to fuck their wives daughters, sons-so I send these H bomb and wipe em out like the scumbag vermin they are and they figure hey im an angry wrathful guy and then want to send me to anger management and rehab..whats wid dat..i gve them the rues plain and simple ten commandments and they act like its all news to them..like they were born yesterday in a manner of spacing…Maybe I made a mistake giving you that thing between your legs..it was an experiment..a joke and you took all so seriously. like chocolate..why did I ever invent chocolate..i had no idea..who knew??
I could use a drink.. ya see you drove mett to digits all your fault cause you don’t want the truth..you just wnanna party have lots of broads and all the money in the world and le and behold you think your happy and then you go and blow yet head off one way or another..I’m starting to think we have here is what you call a codedendent relationship especially you guys in the mideast.I’m not prejudiced. You all the same to me. I don’t care what you call me, honest- I don’t give a rats ass..a rose by another other name…
Whats with the there is no god but god. Think about it..there is no God? But God..You just said there is no god and then you tell me there is..which is it..God or no God..Come one the clocks ticking..I have precious to waste..I mean Im don’t..I’m busy…guy
(There is the sound of a garbage truck in the distance)
I hate those fucking things..so polluting fillup the air with garbage dust..what..cat ya figure out another way??of doing it..so come on ..there is no god…
But there is..i’m confused and whats with the million and one gods-ones not good enuff for ya? You gotta have the god of the door , the god of theunderwear, the god of the retail, the …its Christmas eve, him you remember me you don’t..what am I chopped liver. What about my birthday? What about Gods Birthday? You know god the father?
I know I know you think I’m some homeless old bum, out of mind on aftershave and mouthwash and shoeshine polish and cheap, cheap wine…I don’t give a fuck what you think…I am God..go ahead call the cops..Arrest me , throw me in jail, throw me in the looney bin…
Why do I waste my time with you people..??
TAKES OUT A WORN BIBLE
(takes a swig)
Here it all is- verbum deo..you didn’t know I could speak latin did you.I invented latin…think about it…by the way you know what night this is…?
Ok..here it is…”It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables me to stand on the heights. He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze. You give me your shield of victory, and your right hand sustains me; you stoop down to make me great. You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn.”
God. Where is my son mentioned??
HE HOLDS OUT THE BIBLE
No Where that’s where..ok Isiah..but then he was I was Isiah.. hard to explain..not so hard..”before I was I was..Isiah..in the bible in black in white ..go ahead and lookk…
“Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his. He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.”
Where is he mentioned?? Where??
“The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies. The cords of death entangled me; the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me. The cords of the grave coiled around me; the snares of death confronted me. In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.”
So where he is mentioned??
So Where is my son in all this mishigash??
Its Christmas eve, the night you celebrate my only begotten sons birthday..did you get that my son..only begotten.. hes my son…hes not me…get it??im me and hes my son and he goes and he sits on the right hand, not the left hand..whats so complicate about that?
So whats all the hoopla?
Is the son the father? Does he get to steal my thunder?
Where is it written you should be praying to him and not me? Didn’t he tell you? He told you.. over and over but no you wanna make a rock star out of him..
“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?”Here it is. One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him “Which commandment is the first of all?” Jesus answered, “the first is, ‘Hear O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ The second is this, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Its in the bible in black and white
“are you the son of god?”
“you say so.”
You say so..get it..you not me..later he tells the thief..verily verily, that’s how they used to talk only arameic, not American.”.i say unto you..today you will be with me in heaven”..and who do you think he was talking to near the end there when he rolls his eyes…father, father eloim eloim..why have you abandoned me and then he says..it is finished..are you all half deaf?? Whose he talking to ..himself?? only by me will ye enter the kingdom..only by me means only by my teachings..by the word I bring you..why is that so hard to figure out?? Fucking brilliant..you people..rock stars…university profesors, theologians,rabbi, ministers, priests, popes and kings..you disgust me..
Ok I blame myself, I blame myself ..I should never let him do all that crucifiction strum unf drang, but he talked me into..
How else are we gonna get their attention he says to me..
Ok says I ..you want drama… you got drama ..2008 years of drama and tsouris…
(he scratches his leg)
I think I got fleas…why? Does that disgust you..nothing human disgusts me..so why should it disgust you..i stink? That’s your opinion to my self I smell like a bed of roses..
(he sniffs)
THE STAGE FILLS WITH THE SMELL OF ROSES
what a night..look at those stars…through those clouds..of garbage and smoke…look at those stars..you know I wanted to be an astronomer when I was a kid no really…
(he points to heaven)
See those stars..i made those stars..all 45 700 56780934 trillion zillion of them..all of them with meticulous detail and guess what kids..?
I made you! Every molecule..and I made the angels..the seraphim and I made HIM, the angel of light and called him up to me and put him on the right side of my throne and gave him the kind of smarts only god could dream up and what does he do?
He tries to muscle in on my territory.Like a bum. You know the principal difference between a dog and a creation of mine is don’t ya..between an angel of pure light and a mutt is that a mutt wont bite you for feeding him….for taking care of him..ok I didn’t say that ..mark twain said it but then I created mark twain…
What a character! What balls!to muscle in on my territory after I raised him up. All kind and nice like,ready to give him territories and what does he do BAM!! He tries to snatch it out my hands like a low life..I treated him like a son and what..ah..theres a reason for everyting but I not getting into besides its Christmas Eve..
I said to my real son I said. Son, I called him son. Don’t bother, they’ll crucify you..if you try to help them…they will fucking kill you..
They call you a bum, a gangster, a trouble maker- go ahead heal the sick, make the blind see, give legs to the lame and balm to the lepers-food to the hungry and free the prisoners and then you watch-what happens..walk on water why don’t you…
The first cosmic law is this- no good deed goes unpunished, got it? But he wouldn’t listen not to me not to pappi..not to his mother.. and then he rolls his eyes heavenward “eloim eloim..why have you abandoned ,me??”
What did he expect me to do, rend the heavens and reach down and take him off that cross and blow up the fucking place???
What did he expect would happen?
Theres no figuring out people…even I cant figure em out and I made em..like job, remember him? He’s in the first part of thebook infact he’sin the oldest part of the book, I mean the oldest, there’s a reason for that I’llsplain it to you all later..i’ll be holding private sessions for those that want em in my dressing room especially the blonde in the front row,for 500 bucks..just kidding no..i’m not,just kidding..no I’m not..just kidding..no I’m not..
..job’s a good guy a little boring but a good guy ,the only thing wrong with him is nothing, nothings wrong, nice family good sexywife lots of children she bears him, big healthy happy farm fa,ily, rosy cheeks and all,lots of food, even the baryard animals are happy, the sheep the goats, the swine the pigs are laughing..everything is going along swimmingly as those british pricks might say, I’ll get to the British pricks later, I got a bone to pick so one day Lucifer angel of light, better known as Satan, the liar the deceiver, the actor, remember the ACTOR sidles up to me really sweat like, big red blue eyes flaring and says to me boy that job, hes a real good guy, says his prayers by night, gives you the burnt offerings, honors the Sabbath, all 10 commandments, ALL TEN!!! Everything in order loves the lord god with all his heart and soul and his mind and might BANG!!
100 silver drachmas he turns against you once the going get rough
Bang youre on says I I cant resist a good bet..we’ll talk later..
don’t ask, it just spilled out the me, ok maybe I got a bit of a gambling problem, I love a good bet, expect the unexpected and because as I have often said time and time again I amno.. not RE-SPECTER of persons
BANG – YOUR ON!
And so it begins – I throw the book at him locusts, plagues, famines, earthquakes floods he loses it all wife Chidren house the full catastrophe THIS is before came up with concentration camps cover the poor bastard in sores I mean bleeding pus and fart sores loses his hair his teeth his friends no one I mean no one will give him a helping hand, all his fair-weather friends..a his we love you job as long as you got money and land and property and prestige they bolt like demented jackrabbits a few even snicker in his face..hey job..your getting what you deserve. why would god do this if you hadn’t done some thing wrong, good point..good point..you musta done something..no helping hand here just..must be you….its beautiful.. they avoid him like the plague, there in his hour of sorest need, tell you something and he keeps praying and praying and loving and loving and a fasting and a praying finally last straw he breaks down weeps and weeps and wails and on his broken blistering knees looks up to the heavens in my general direction
“why oh god ..why???” why why why??
Why? Why not asshole?Cause I’m God and yer not!!!
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing, get it. Geerout!!
And that’s when I let him have it full blasters
Why? Says I “cause I’m god and your not” Cause I feel like it ok? And then I hit him with the old Elizabethan rag, the great shakeasperan shhit shot..love that guy what a playwright but then he stole it all from me and my writings but we’ll get into that later and says I to a crumbled mess of a human being,King James style..
WHERE WERT THOU WHEN I CREATED THE UNIVERSE…were wert thou when I created the UNIVERSE??
(Pause)
and that shut him up tight a nuns cunt…and not another peep out of him, not even a tiny squeak of a fart, you could hear the boards creek and the wind in the distant hills blow like desert songs.. of emptied broken –hearted..shards..i like that word..empty…
Were.wert.thou.
When i.
Created
The universe…
And then bingo I gave it all back 10 fold-I restored the harvest the locusts had eaten…
And I made a hundren silver drachmas in the bargain
You could heard a pin drop….
THE BEETHOVEN MOONLIGHT SONATA PLAYS THROUGHOUT THIS…
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
I love Beethoven.Stole it from me. I dictated. He wrote. Then I made him deaf, just to prove a point!!!
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
And God called the firmament Heaven. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
And I set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and I saw that it was good.
MUSIC ENDS
Beautiful shit!!! Beethoven..So John Houston dies and goes to heaven and he meets st peter at the pearly gates;
“John Houston, John Houston, gods got a picture he wants you to direct..guess who wrote it..Shakeaspeare!!Guess who gonna design it..Michaelangelo we gott!! And Beethoven Beethoven as agreed to do the music, can you believe it??..the only problem..Gods got this ..girlfriend!!…”Gods got this girlfriend!! Get it.. Funny!!!
And then I made youse guys!!!
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
And I saw every thing that I had made, and, behold, it was very good.Perfect. Should have been all over then no??
But ye can not well accompany the devil..Can ye??
SOUND OF WIND AND THUNDER.TAKES OUT SMALL RADIO FROM HIS POCKET AND FIDDLES. TAKES OUT AIR HARMONICA –“DAISY..DAISY..”
Love short wave..gives me this mystical feeling..
Looks like snow.Its warming.Or snow? Let me check the scores. Yup Yankees won. As I predicted. Stockmarket down. 112 points. Missed one.I just made 22 trillion..
HE PUTS OUT TO FEEL THE FIRST FLAKES.
Love snow. Just love it.Its a fine invention of mine.Soft and gentle on Christmas Eve, is there anyting more beautiful??
SILENT NIGHT HOLY NIGHT PLAYS IN THE DISTANCE
SLOW FADE TO BLACK
INTERMISSION
LIGHTS UP .THE TRAMP IS PACING, TRYING TO KEEP WARM.STAMPING HIS FEET.
This global fucking warming. Rain instead of snow. but its great I hate the winters, sleeping on a grate freezing my fucking ass off,so its fine with me.. but I find it all so humiliating sometimes..so embarassing.. all those feet in front of my face and sometimes I fall asleep and when I wake up I think I’m back home in my bed, my mothers house with the cute little ducks on the wall..and the peanut butter and jam sandwiches for lunch at school..
HE STARTS TO TEAR UP
I miss my mamma, especially since I never had one and am self created. Its tough being self created I tell ya. Its lonely at the top..believe me.forThere be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.Peanut butter sandwiches and a glass of warm chocolate milk…“Innumerable devils have compassed me about… Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me: O Lord, make haste to help me” Help me, Lord. Ok I will.
BLACKOUT
LIGHTS SLOW UP THEN A VOICE.MUSIC
“waiter..water..for my daughter..for my daughter..waiter..water…water ..water..water..water..water..water..water..she drowned.
BLACKOUT
INTERMISSION
PART 2.
LIGHTS SNAP OPEN.GOD IS RUMMAGING.HE FINDS AN OLD RIPPED UP UNDERWEAR.A CHILDS DOLL. A TIN CAN. A LIGHT BULB.
GOD
What??So I’m rummaging.So what? Whats it to ya? I’m hungry.Whose do you suppose this was?? What little girl??My little girl?My little girl?I’m supposed to be some kind of a fucking joke,s that what I’m supposed to be,??you drive by in your limos,on your way to your strip clubs and your swingers parties with tinted windows and you stare at me like yu are looking at a martian or something..im a human being folks, just like you.every morning come to and grab my crotch and inch by inch I go down the hill to this corner right inch by inch rags blowing in the freezing wind on the freeway where the cars cant stop or sometimes stops and I put up a sign – WILL WORK FOR FOOD..SIGNED GOD..you know what youse are?? You’re a bunch of arsholes!! You think you rich fucks are gonna get away with anything?? Your seriously misguided- go ahead with your banks and yur credit cards and you insurance companies- here insure this!!
IT THUNDERS AND LIGHTHNING FLASHES
Yeah yeah I know a coincidence. As you get into your Porches and your Mercedes and your Lear Jets and while you have your high and mighty end meetings o figure out how to screw your fellow man ponder if there is enough money in the world to insure that your assholes wont fall off!!End run that!!
And I said let there be LIGHT and there was light and so was the woild created, but no that wasn’t good enuff –you needed the light bulb, the moon and the stars weren’t enuff..
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.Be ashamed if know the meaning of the word and yes REPENT FOR THE END IS NIGH!!
HE FINDS A BROKEN TV AND THEN A BUSTED COMPUTER
You..whats this..?YOU had to have entertainment. And computers.It wasn’t enough to have trees and fish and flowers!! Yu had to have TV!!YOU BUNCHA GANGSTERS!! Your legs weren’t good enuff you had to have cars and bikes and trains and if I had wanted you to fly wouldn’t I have given you wings?I gave you nature and a mind what the fuck do you need entertainments for?? To pass the time??You aint got time to waste.. For, behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth.
Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
HE STARTS TO BUILD A CHRISTMAS TREE OUT OF GARBAGE
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.ANDThe people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. (He) has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath (he) removed like a tree… He counts me as one his of enemies” “He has fenced me in so I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths” (19:8).
HE IS RIPPING UP THE CARDBOARD AND THE WOODEN CRATE TRYING TO BUILD A FIRE..
I’m freezing. I need a match NOW. I really need shelter NOW.Its 20 below, this is gonna kill me..me.. feet and legs are numb,I may not make it thru another night..I need help I need companionship.I need warmth.. Please God don’t let me die this way have no one to turn to for you have placed a feast before me in the presence of mine enemies!!.Please help me… Why am I going through this nightmare… O Lord God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee: let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry, for my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.”
You have no idea, who I am..was..and you don’t care..why should you..Youre all so busy running around like scared rats..keep running..just keep running and whatever yu do don’t look back cause something might gaining on you.your just rats…scared ugly rats..living in feces and garbage..me I live in paradise.. this is heaven..youve got it all backwards and I laugh at you and feel sorry for you (He) has destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and my hope hath (he) removed like a tree… He counts me as one his of enemies” “He has fenced me in so I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths” (19:8).
.
HE CHUCKLES AND COUGHS…
Emphysema.
I had an important job on Bay St,over 200 grand a year,perkes bonuses expense account, a Seville 5 bathroom 5 bedroom house,cause you know I was so important and of such service to the company my boss loved me.true love..one day ..my boss he takes me aside and tells me im one of his best and for this reason they were gonna let me off easy no pension,,no green parachute, no nothing the com..no really..I got a law degree from Queens, and then..I don’t know what happened..the bottle, I guess..I pissed myself off??..I kept working longer and longer hours like they said, like they told me..trying to make a living for me for my wife and my child n, not knowing and I work harder and harder and longer and longer hours and I come home and then that day came and everything is goner, where my kid?s where is she??then I hear this animal moaning coming from my old basements gone, theyre gone,i cant find them and then..the moaning gets louder and louder..i call out to them and i go downstairs and she’s hiding and she tells me Sarah..Sarah..
WHERE IS SARAH?? WHERE IS SARAH??DEAR GOD IN HEAVEN WHERE IS SARAH????
1. Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves’ eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
2. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
3. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
4. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
5. Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
6. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
7. Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
8. Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
9. Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
10. How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
11. Thy lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
12. A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
13. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard,
14. Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:
15. A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
16. Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
Let me kiss thee for thy lips are better than wine…..
After the funeral she change,such a little coffin, like a dolls d and she had this look in her eyes like something inside of her had been broken..this look..in the hospital they gave her these meds and then she came back home and just sat staring into the walls, just staring and then she was gone..every thing gone.. the furniture, the bank accounts..everything..gone in an instant and I just …fell apart..just fell apart…Is it too much to ask dear lord?
“for the lord shall cut off flattering lips and the tongue that speaks them..let the lying lips be put to silence…
1: Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
2: How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?
3: Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
4: If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;
5: If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6: If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
9: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow….I hit the bottle and the bottle hit me right back
Nothing made sense anymore. No life..not death..career..home..country..day and night..the stars, the moon, the sea.. nothing..
They put me in a mental ward.I ended up in the Clarke Inst..they put me on meds said I was clinically depressed..I couldn’t get out of bed in the morning ..they fed me intravenously. after a year of drugs and therapy they threw me out..I was healed..I went home. But .there was no home left there was nothing for me..the street, the alleyways..jails..night and cold and then..I realized that I was God..God..God…and when I got it I left everything and I flushed the meds down the toilet, those cocksuckers..no-one gave a shit about me..I would have killed them if I had a sword.. Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
If I had a sword aah you would all befucked and his head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.
For Thou tellest me in my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book? When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me. In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.”
HE PAUSES AND STARES INTO SPACE.
I think I pissed myself…
What part of “thou shalt not kill, don’t you get?” You need a degree in calculus to figure it out??..you need a degree in deconstructionist semiology? Heigerian existentialism? Yu steal all the money in the world guess what..your a killer..you let someone starve, a child an old person..you kill..what part of it aint you getting?..is it that complicated?..you have to win an Oscar, a Nobel prize to understand get a phd on your phd??What the fuck is wrong with everyone..oh Im not judging..actually I do judge..the living and the dead..
You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also;what part of that don’t you get???
You! that’s the problem with man kind you!! and I include women in this equation, nothing is ever good enuff, not trees or stars or moon or infinite space.its always got be something else.i give you apples you want oranges I give you oranges you want pineapples I give you pineapples and you want pineapple flavoured snap gum with xylitol.I give you tea you want coffee with extra creamy latte and sorbitol espresso double shot and soybean syrup.
Whats with ouy guys? Why is enuff never enuff and enuff never too much and too much never enuff. I don’t get youse anymore than I got noah.i mean whats with the daughters?
For that matter what was with adam and eve? And their dysfunctional kids.Whats wrong with youse people? And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,
nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
His leaf also shall not wither.
HE PAUSES AND WAITS FOR A TRUCK TO PASS BY.THE NOISE IS DEAFENING.
I hate trucks.Loud dirty noisy fucking trucks.I hate machinery..whats wrong with the arms I gave you? And the legs I gave you? Not good enough..yu had to be stronger, faster, smarter??
I send someone along to spread the good word. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, for the hour of judgement is at hand and you chop his head off and put it on a silver platter just to impress some broad.Granted she had great tits. I’m on stone.
I make it perfect and you fuck it up.
Let me suggest something if I may..cut it out..and cut it out right now, if you know whats good for you which you obviously don’t. OK, maybe it’s a little too complicated so I send Moses along and write in stone in a language even an idiot would understand. Which part of thou shalt not kill don’t you get?
THUNDER
Hear that? That’s me talking.Clearing my throat as it were. Going ahem aheam..may I be so bold..may I be so bold as to try to get it into your thick heads that the hour of judgement is nigh and I caint seem to get no satisfaction. By the way the Stones..they work for me, not the other Guy.Dylan ..me, the Beatles..me boy was it ever me..Celine Dion, the other Guy.Sinatra lets just say..its a toss up.Beethoven me..Listz me, Chopin me, Vivaldi me, big time..Mozart 100 percent me, Bach, I give you ears you gotta make radio. Eyes you gota have a TV, internet porn, dating services, nothing is good enough for you…
Now you may find it funny, or tragic or sad. But the world I made and the world as it is now..its two very different things.Theres this world here
HE GESTURES
And then there the world you guys made…but soldiers are dying everyday in this world, soldiers, civilians, men women children, old sick grandmothers, rich businessmen or sooo…men and women are strapping on bombs and blowing themselves to smithereens!! We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement?War. What part of thou shalt not kill don’t you get???War.
That’s whats going on on this planet I made…you can run but you cant hide and if I feel like turning all of youse into pillars of salt..hey guess what..I CAN!!! For the first part of the story is ..
HE SNAPS HIS FINGERS
Come on, come on think about it..
Think about it..in the beginning there was the void, I mean the word and the word was made flesh, meaning what ..meaning youse..youre the flesh I’m talking about and if you are the incarnation of the word, then youse all are incarnations of me..my word..which is law..
So go figure it out..first there was nothing, zero squilch, nada, empty space and then I speak and fill it up..and there you are and there I am and there you are ..and there I am..i am that..i am..im popeye the sailor man..SHUT UP,SHUT THE FUCKUP! Your wars!!! Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.You are all of you unclean, not I!!
HE POINTS TO THE AUDIENCE, A MEMBER THEREOF
When Im speaking to you shut the fuck up, for the Lord is my Shephard and I shall not wander..your God is a vengeful God, a wrathful God.. have you fucking repented your sins you fucking weasel..no? then shut the fuck up..What do you think this is a dress rehearsal? You do?well then who am I and who are you?Yu think I’m some homeless tramp with nothing better to do on a Saturday night than peruse the fucking want ads and the obituary?So who the fuck are you???I’m serious motherfucker!!For ye eat The bread of adversity, and drink the waters of affliction.
WELL, FUCK YOU!
(pauses, quiet)
And the horses you rode in on, all 4 of them. I’m glad you’ll be ok when I..ride out of here..I gotta find a bottle..I know I got one stashed right here
HE RUMMAGES THRU THE GARBAGE, TAKES OUT A BOTTLE OF SCREECH AND A SOGGY CIGARETTE…
Now I know some of youse out there, is thinking whats God doing smoking and drinkin-to these individuals I say
SO WHAT!so the fuck what..what business is it of yours what God does or doent do or if he dies on a cross in some godforsaken hole in a corner of the infinite galaxy, or sits under a tree gazing at his navel, or has a farm in the north country fair..remind me oh one oh one .. Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord.
HE SINGS AND DRINKS
If your travellin in the north country fair
Where the winds blow heavy on the borderlines
Remind me o one, o one who lives there
For she once was a true love of mine…
For He was cut off out of the land of the living.
I know that by know your all thinking who is this asshole?
I’ll tell you who I am I’m god..and your not..i’m god and your not..get it..Job screaming at me for attention..why? why? Why?
Cause I feel like it asshole that’s why..cause im god and your not and “where wert thou when I created the universe, asshole..”
Were the fuck wert thou??When I was born…I love that!
It’s a mystery this God-life thing- some of you out there don’t believe in me well all I can say is—I don’t believe in you..you don’t believe in me and fuck you I don’t believe in you but hey..there are no atheists in a trenches..interesting huh? No atheist on the firing line and then its..
MUMBLING
MMMmmmtttt please help me..oh god…hhhhhnnnmmm oh my dear god..help me me help me..heeeeeelp me..dont let me die..dont let me die alone in this alleyway and I promise to be good..i promise…honest.. And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.Oh God!!! Oh God!! Oh help me!!!!
BLACKOUT
LIGHTS UP
HE DRINKS.
Fuck ..after shave…I’m drinking aftershavelotion..oh the shame the shame..he humiliation…
SHADOW OF A POLICEMAN CUTS ACROSS THE ALLEYWAY
Oh oh..chesse it..the cops..why good evening officer.. taking a break from the evenings festivities at the goose and duck soire?. Am I drunk??Sure I’m drunk. Sir I can assure you occifer than nothing the purest of spring waters has passed thru these lips.move on?Oh Lucifer how thou art fallen.. Why certainly I would love to move on but where to?To earth? To heaven? Where is my home? For the son of man hath not a place to lay his head.And I need a shave honest..occifer..
VOICE
Move on.
And where should I move to?and once I get there I’ll still be god and still be everywhere at once so why push it
Down the street?I’ll still be there. All the same to me here or down the street…don’t you get it?ok ok forgive my importance occifer…forgive my self importance but let me explain something to you sometimes I can be the biggest shithead yo have ever know and in you worst nightmares-I can be a gangster like yu have never known so would be very careful to tread in my presence, capisce?and you can arrest me and put me in a prison and give me the opportunity to hang myself..
Cancer,disease, taxes, war, concentration camps are a picnic compared to what I am capable of doing.I created stars billons of them, for kicks and the cockroach just for laughs.So who are you? Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.Occifer.
VOICE
Move on!!!
MAN
Yes..yes..move on..
VOICE
Move on if ye know whats good for ya…
MAN
YES…yes..(as though listening to distant thunder) move on..
Tremble and fear me if you have any sense left in
That noggin of your because I can blow you back into the dark ages if I feel like it so don’t get me feeling that way-play nice-stay cool-all I ask is a little respect-a little bonhomie, a little admiration- be nice to me and I will be nice to you- cosmic law-don’t sweat the small stuff and its all small stuff-give us this day our daily bread and all that stuff-daily not yearly, not monthly –are yu getting it?And no outer darkness and gnashing of teeth for you- no trembling in awe and perdition- Are. You. Getting it???
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots:
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
Are you getting it?I don’t think so.I don’t think your getting it.You’ve never gotten it and I’ve been close then someone, the virgin mary, somewhen interecedes of your behalf”give em a 2nd chance, and a 3 and a 4th and a two hundred and 53 and I do –you can all thank m son for that one but ask yourselves this –how much fucking patience do you think I got????ass yourselves..how umuch?? Is there a number…is there a number? Is there a number I can call?A number I can come up with??
Do I get to call someone for advise? Is there someone for me to turn to?Why am I on the streets, in an alleyway scrounging for food? What kind of a God am I anyway?
Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you?
Maybe Im just a homeless wreck. Maybe I’m just a schizoid,off his meds, out of his rocker. Maybe that’s who God is….
PAUSES
SINGS UNDER BREATH
“what if god where one of us
just a slob like one of us
just a stranger on the bus
trying to find his way home
no one to talk to on the phone
excpt the pope mabe in rome
(from song –WHAT IF GOD WHERE ONE OF US by…..
A GIANT SHADOW CROSSES OVER HIM
BLACKOUT
HE IS STARING INTO THE NIGHT SKY.
What is that a UFO? Why am I scared all the time, if I’m made of love why do I shake and tremble and make the universe shake and tremble? Whats with that?I need a smoke but I’ve run out and a drink. I got the shakes bad this time (HE HOLDS HANDS OUT) look..look..look upon my works.. ye mighty and …despair..for I am a wrathful god, a jealous god, a vengeful god and.i’ll grind you bones to make..my daily bread..for where wert thous when I did created the world?
I didn’t ask for much…
SINGS
“god said to Abraham kill me a son
god said man you must be putting me on
god said nooo abe said what??god said you
can do what you want
but the next time you see me coming
you better run
Abe said where you want this killing done?
Take it on down to
Highway 61
Zoom
THE OLD TRAMP TAKES OUT HARMONICA.HE PLAYS, FRANTIC…
I used to play one of these in the 60’s I was part of a famous rock and roll band..groupies, millions, adoring screeming fans, wrecked hotels, swimming pools full of blondes..the whole 9 yards..i died a wreck a drug addict and alcoholic..died my heart stopped and when I came to in the hospital..i was me.. this guy..and theni discovered who I really was- God. I was god. Dog. D.O.G.
God! What? That spells dog? God is backwards?
I got a little ADHD?
I wasn’t happy.
I had fame , I had money..I wasn’t happy. I had babes.I had baubles. I had fancy cars. The money was stolen. The babes betrayed me.The cars were repossessed, the baubles disappeared like soap scum in wind. Everyone betrayed me.The houses, the travel, the vacations in Tahiti, the whores in Thailand, the audulaton, the awards- all bullshit. My wife throws me out, my business manager rips me off, everyone throws their backs to me and here I am an old bum in an alley way bumbing smokes and regaling you assholes with my tales..for I am Job.
TO WALKING SHADOW
“spare a nickel spare a dime spare a nickel spare adime”(superfast, and then over the speakers located on different parts of the stage, the garbage bin, the walls, the sidewalk, voices- spare a nickel spare a dime)
And then SHE broke my heart- who mary madalenes? Yeah mary magdelene, that fucking whore… The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.
Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil.
I lose everything, the very universe I created…weird aint it? I create it and then I destroy it weird aint it, destroy it create it, destroy it create it ho hum…. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.Its Christmas Eve.
HE SINGS AND DANCES “HAV A NAGILA” which turns into “HAVE A BAGEL, HAVE A NAVEL
He dances and DRINKS…
BLACKOUT
PART 3.
SOMETHING HAS CHANGED.
WHEN THE LIGHTS COME UP HE NO LONGER LONGER THERE, THEN UNDER THE GARBAGE SOMETHING STIRS. ITS HIM- GOD. HE NOISE OF THETRAFFIC IS GONE.SOUND OF THUNDER.HE IS NO LONGER TOOTHLESS.
Where the fuck am i???Where the fuck am I?I got such a head…
HE ROLLS AROUND THE GARBAGE.
Where the fuck is it? My pistol? Where is it? Mama? Mama I’m scared. I drempt I was a homeless wreck who thought he was God, and lived in an alleyway, forgotten, forlorn, forsaken and my friends and family had all abandoned me..I remember my room with the cute little teddy bears and peanut butter sandwiches and summers at the cottage under a full moon sky…and my first communion..and the prom..it was..how?
HE STARES INTO AUDIENCE
Who you lookin at?Are you lookin at me? I don’t exist.
I’m a figment of your imagination. You can use that brain of yours to prove I’m not real. What do you see?An old bum? A homeless wreck? Another accident of existence, chaotically put together?Chao will always come. ?but it will pass. Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning?
PAUSES
I’m staring into the ether and see nothing.God help me.
BLACKOUT
LIGHTSUP.ITS RAINING. THE HOMELESS WRECK IS COVERED IN GARBAGE A BOTTLE OF AQUA VELVA IN HIS FILTHY HANDS-BOTTLES STREWN EVERYWHERE. HE GROGGILY COMES TO.THUNDER.
I’m I’m in my mouth which doth cleave and my tongue..my tongue..I have been shipwrecked before ..3 times and scorned beated with the lash and the rod..39 times..starved and laughed at ..beaten tortured and imprisoned..for..what the fuck where am i..? The voice said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
HE SHIVERS.SOUND OF RAIN
HE SINGS
“waitor, water..for my daughter
for my daughter bring some water..
IT’S A WESTERN JAZZ TUNE CIRCA 1934
“water for my daughter..waiter..
oh king of satyrs..
whyever dost thou refuse
to grasp boldly the sword..and use
only fierce words for thy weapons of war..
of war! War! War! War!if a man takes
his knife for sharpening..thou graIndest
thy teeth..
And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
I SHOULD HAVE KILLED THE MOTHER FUCKER!
Taken a knife and sliced him open from stern to stem and her that rounded bitch from hell!!!!Walkin by me like that.Ignoring my very existence! Like I don’t exist, like I am so homeless wrech you all can ignore. I am on the street. You should all be ashamed!
“waitor..water..for my daughter..”
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
And when I cam into the office that morning Joe Edwards my boss, looks at me and says-“Looks like we’re gonna have to let you go Mike..”It’s a roundup..But Joe says I..ah joe I been working here for 30 years..I expected a gold watch not kick in the teeth for my hard years of labor..and he steals everything from me..that cocksucker..everything..
HE RISES
I get home. She’s gone, taken my daughter,my son, cleaned out my back bank account.The taxes..how could I pay the taxes..the taxes.. and a certain man from Galilee did come to him to Jesus saying “If you are the Messiah..then tell me why I am such a rich asshole..”And he could not answer him. He hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows.
Go thou ..today..I see to you verily I will see you in heaven..
SHOUTS
“Show me a token for good!!!; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast helped me, and comforted me.”
SOUND OF A SIREN.THEN THE WIND. A DOG BARKS.
How many beatings can a man take?
As many as he can.And they hung him on a tree that his ribs might break and his lungs fill up and he suffocated and rolling his eyes before his death he said to the great green hoc age heaven-forgive them father for they know not what they ..doo doo..dooo waiter, water for my daughter..fr my daughter and me and while your at it a good long draft of Calvados..briocon unitas..
Lets eat…
“waitor, water..for my daughter
for my daughter bring some water..
oh daughters of Zion!!
OUT OF THE GARBAGE HE MAKES A TABLE AD CHAIR..
Ah better, much better lets see whats on the menu today..What no chautbriand? No surf and turf..?
HE RETCHES
Hoc Age! See to this!Hoc Age.
And a certain man had 3 servants and he said to them..”Look I’m going on a business trip..I want yuse guys to take care of my business i.e. the money..and he broke it up tres partes est and the to the first servant he gave the 3d part and to the 2nd the #d part and th the 3d the #d part and he left and the first servant whose name was Ivor ran to the a field and buried the treasure at night so that it might be safe and the second put it into mutual funds and the 3d went to Casinorama and gambles and the man came back..
“Well says he”Wheres my loot and the gambling fool said hey baby..I gambled and won big time and presented him with the money 20 fold and the 2nd whose name was noname said hey baby I put it mutual funds got out just before the crash and tripled your loot and the first kind and wise servant he says- I made sure you would NOT lose it man and HERE IT IS baby- and the man said to the first two”thou art wise and clever fellows sit ye on the right side of my fathers mansion and to the first servant who was only doing his job he said “Get thee gone wicked and rotten idiot, and cast him into outer darkness where there was great wailings and much gnashing of teeth,,,
ONE OF HIS TEETH FALLS OUT.HE STARES AT IT A LONG TIME THEN PUTS IT IN HIS POCKET..
I cant feel my feet. My legs are numb. Maybe I should see a doctor..or something..
SHADOWS AND HONKING OF HORNS
Hey baby..spare some change..for a homeless wreck..for God?
HIS HANDS REACH OUT AS IF CATCHING IMAGINARY FLIES..
Gotcha…(as RED SKELETON) why yes Mrs Mugilikatty..
I did bring home the bacon as you requested but forgot the bottle of milk. I was a little busy getting crucified..I know its an odd request but can I look at yur perky little titties??Prepare ye the way..Miss Miggilkatyy..II’M AH COMIN..I’M A COMIN..IM A COMIN..
BLACKOUT.LIGHTS UP.STAGE IS EMPTY.
THE ACTOR PLAYING THE HOMELESS WRECK IS GONE FROM THE STAGE. HE IS CLEANED UP AND WEARING A SUIT.SEATED IN THE FRONT ROW OF THE THEATRE. HE WALKS UP ON STAGE.
ACTOR
Ladies and Gentlemen, I want to apologize to you tonight for having dragged you out of your warm safe and comfortable homes to this dive.And to have to make you pay money for this drivel is an outrage and it insults even me.It insults the ancestors, it even insults the unborn. Above all it insults the Great Creator, he who made heaven and earth and the little flowers therein.
When I made the decision to dedicate myself to the act-king profession I followed the following course of logic. Since everything is this universe is matter , it follows that the movement of matter, how matter operates…uh..its equivalence…huh…it follows that..it follows ..where was hi? Hi?I’m signaling thru the flames.Like Noah I have decided to refund your money and add a ten percent tip for good measure for having wasted your time here tonight, you all went out tonight for an evening of entertainement and what do you get-bupkus –that’s why you all got off your comfy haunches and got in to your car??.And for what?didst thou not go out and pay for parking and walked thru the portals of this decrepit poor excuse of a synagogue, er theatre, and buy drinks an dpopcorn and eat of the fatted lamb andinstead of getting menlellsons number 3-you got bupkus, a phizzle as it were in the whispered part of nothingness-why?why?? why??? Oh lord help me, help us all for the lord thy god is a vebgeful and pissed off god and if yu think for a geeky minute…and what do I find here when I entered? Money lenders, prostitutes, a den of iniquity…
THERE IS A LOUD SIREN
Ahh the apocalyse..the end of days..and the2 nd coming..its time..and in those days…david was king of the jews..and what a cat he was..biggest pussy hound in the old testament..no couldn’t get enough of em..redheads blondes, brunettes, big tits, small tits, firm little asses with long waists, just like his dad..a chip off the old block..harems..concubines..this the ancestor of my son, jeshsua though the lineage of joseph and in those days..Solomon was king and was considered the wisest man in the world and apparently the horniest..kinda goes hand in hand don it?Shows to go ya. But king Solomon loved many strange women.
So leave paradise, leave the garden im throwing you out you and that whore.GET THE FUCK OUTTA MY HOUSE!!!!
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
Go one beat it and don’t come back GO OUT THERE! Into outer darkness where there shall be the gnashing of teeth..for I your Lord God am a jealous God am a wrathful God am an envious God full of fire and brimstone and I make you look like a marshmaleow roast..you see..you see..I am the gangster of gangsters…
HE LIGHTS UP A BUTT
I gave you the arc of the covenant..I made a special deal wth youse..I said ok, you are chosen among all the peoples of the earth even the wallabies as beimg special and what do you do you crucify my son..you spit in my eye..and generally speaking treat me like shit..what is it that you lack???
Didn’t I give you the sun?
Didn’t I give you the moon and the stars?
Well didn’t I?THINK about it. What was the look of your face before your parents were born. Before you were born where were you. Why does the curtain of blackness fall that separates the living from the dead and memory stops. How far back can any of you remember?
Do you remember your first year on earth? Your first month? Week? Day? Hour? Minute ? second? Where were you before that and where will you go when your eyes close for the last time.
MUSIC AND SNOW
You worry about money. You worry about health. You worry about food. You worry about shelter. You spend your days and nights in fear and worry. And desire and need.you worry about everything. If you have money you worry it will be stolen and if you don’t you worry that you will never get it….
You just don’t get it do ya??When will you get it? When you die? When will you ever be happy? When your dead?
There was a man and his name was Abraham, spotless son of me and he lived a long time ago at the beginning of time and he gave birth to all you.And God made him father of his people and of the peoples of the earth.And he was their king and God spoke to him and said “Abraham, bring me your son and place him on the altar as a burnt offering to me, that I may be satisfied.”
HE COUGHS..
And Abraham, who put his trust and faith in me, the Lord of Hosts, Creator of Heaven and Earth did was he was told and an Angel of the Lord grabbed his might arm as he was about to kill his own son.
And the Lord rewarded him for his obedience and the Lord blessed him even unto 9 generations and blessed his children and his childrens children.
Of course he did fuck his maidservant. No-ones perfect.
Abraham was a wise man who knew.And me.. know nothing, see nothing, hearnothing…
Why don’t you know? What have you forgotten? Close your eyes and think.Bells and whistles, candle book and power..
HE CLOSES HIS EYES. AND CONCENTRATES.
I once has a home and a son and a wife and a throne.But no longer do.. I once had a job and a place and a car and a life and a mother and a father.They passed away And I had brothers and sisters and uncles and aunts and cousins and friends and went to school and I went to university andI was successful in my career.And it all disappeared. And it was all taken away.Because everything must be taken away before you will listen to my still quiet voice. Because your brain has too much noise and traffic and roaring.Because the nations of the earth are at war and brother fights brother. Because some take everything and other nothing.
I once had a home and a wife and a son. And my son was crucificied on the cross of forgetfulness as a deliverance of your sins.And you were forgiven and washed in the blood of the lamb.And upon tis rock did I build my church.
Because I am the Lord thy God, creator of heaven and earth!!
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
May I know to refuse the evil and choose the good!
Behold.A child is born.A great light in the world and his name shall be….
MUSIC UP.ITGETS LOUDER AND LOUDER, SHATTERING AS DOES THE LIGHT THEN;
BLACKOUT.SIRENS.SOUND OF SNOWFALL.
LIGHTS UP TO REVEAL EERIE EARLY MORNING LIGHT.THER BUM IS DEAD WRAPPED UP IN RAGS AND CARDBOARDA NEWSPAPER BLOWS..CHRISTMAS MUSIC PLAYS.THE LIGHTS DIE OFF TO BLACKNESS.
Posted by silentdancer96 on September 9, 2010 at 12:16 PM
Interesting, the concept is fascinating. My late brother and i kicked this idea around for hours one evening over a decade ago…the bottom line was that “in Him is no shadow of turning” and no, neither of us “could make a tree”. Still wonder about it sometimes, but all i really know is that He is Who He says He is. Miss my brother still, but loved this.
Posted by havre50 on July 28, 2010 at 12:52 AM
I actually find this very interesting if not disturbing on about 10 different levels.It must be my Catholic upbringing .But still I was a product of the 70s and so I can still really appreciate this work,
Thank you