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Gospel means good news
I'll take a line of vodka
And a mouth of vanilla
And I'll say my prayers
While I'm trying not to scream
God see's everything
Gospel means good news
And 2000 years
People cringe before your painted icon
To inspire both fear and love
Glass stained the colour of blood
Dirty old church, cold cold old stone
Hanuted by ghosts
A big silver horse, a dead gypsy girl
And a dog that howls at the moon
That I cant see.
It's not like the wind, so much
It is more like the dark
Everywhere, the part that is
not seen.
Gospel means good news
If you are first
you might be the last
and what is not of this world
Is the words unspoken
Leather and fire, metal teeth
That tear, those puritan kisses
Your gamekeeper God
How big is your face?
As big as the sun
Or just
As big as the moon
Or the distance between
My house and the river
People find their way
To hollow places
The echo substantiates
Somehow
I pull the next thing to me closer
And I wont cry, just yet.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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