Your To-Do List for Today

Be a mystic and a carpenter.
That would please us.
Secretly out-Jesus Jesus.

Let sense be common
and eternal and voluptuous –
without infernally disrupting us.

Sing a metered rhyme:
wanton as an August breeze –
wounding as a February freeze.

Purport to tell a lie:
cover it in mud and sod –
pray to it as if it were your god.

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