Lawn Sprayer Variation
YOUR PRAYER
Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil,
For Thine is the Kingdom,
The Power, and the Glory,
For ever and ever, Amen.
A NEVER
Are farther witch out a never,
How loud beef high in aim?
Viking dumb calm,
Thigh will be dumb,
Honored as it is a never.
Givers Thursday are day libretto,
For givers are dress pussies
(a sweet fork if them that dress puss are gangsters.)
And leaders knot into them teaching.
Buddy, liver is primeval,
Four diners the king done
The bar in thug Larry
For River endeavor are men.
OUR BARBER
Our barber be barby bebba,
Babbow be by babe.
By bib-bub bub,
By bib be bub
Oberb abby bibby bebba.
Bibbub bib bay our baby beb
Ab borbib ber our bebbeby
Ab bee borbib beb bab bebba bebayba.
Beebub bob iboo bebayba
Bub bebibba ub bobeeby,
Bor by bib be bib-bub,
Be Bower, ab be Borby,
Bor ebber ab ebber, Ah beb.
WAR THERE
According to allied intelligence reports in heaven,
Bombs have flattened a nearby village, killing thy name.
South Vietnamese soldiers come
And heavy damage is done.
The Cua Viet, an estuary leading to Dongha, is in heaven,
According to the definition used by the United States command. Daily bread
Shells and rockets hit our trespasses,
And five thousand marines are surrounded by them that trespass against us.
Artillery fire is pounding the American naval base into temptation
And the base is unable to carry out its evil.
Between the demilitarized zone and the kingdom
Lie the airstrip, the repair yard, and the glory
Of intermittent bombardment, amen.
WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU
One fabulous whistle and I'll have
Hieronymous Bosch tackling nightmares,
Teddy Kennedy campaigning,
Tom Waldman buying dogs,
Odysseys Elytis answering introductions in iambic hysteria,
Giuseppe Ungaretti testing dactyls on desperate bums,
Albert Finney urging official talks,
Andy Warhol flying to Toronto to avoid unpleasantness,
Abraham Lincoln uniting nations in time,
Bob Dylan uncommunicative for effect,
Francois Truffaut in the know,
Thomas Pynchon and that guy
Friedrich Engles arranging everybody anticlockwise.
ACTUARIAL
White-collar worker cash out on loan
Affected the economy. The
Commodity boom, despite
Heavy capital expenditure, gave
Production cash, as that famous Abingdon proposition
Whose thesis illustrates "supply" or possibly "demand"
Had the figures for analysis.
Consumers were the problem at this point. Economics
And related disciplines attempt to run
Great consumer bulletins from actual
Or vague headquarters. Distribute them
Here or abroad like poetry,
Whatever your mood or condition.
OUR EXTENSION
Our extension which art in units,
Hallowed be thy shape.
Thy erotic iconography come,
Thy remarkable number of variations be done
On principle as it is in fact.
Give us this day our daily growth,
And forgive us our lecture on Wednesdays at 3.00 pm
As we forgive them that systematically expunge certain
Names from the official list of lecturers against us.
And lead us not into disagreement with Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749ÔÇô1832) who emphasized the fact
That all living things are based structurally on a fairly
Small number of discrete designs, nor with James
Clerk Maxwell (1831ÔÇô1879) whose theory pointed to
The fact that light must exert a pressure on any surface
On which it falls,
But deliver us from bruises,
For thine is the incriminating evidence,
The pair of underpants and the motive,
For your own sake and from now on as follows:
Tell the operator you wish to place an overseas
Call, give her the name of the country you propose to
Call, and don't expect to hear all the answers.
UNBELIEVABLE
You may not believe this, but
A long time ago
There were people
Who actually do believe
In the existence of an invisible thing
They think of as a male parent
And speak to as if
It was ultimately responsible for everything, either silently
By themselves or all talking together
Out loud in rows. Back
Then in the distant past
There were people who believe
This thing is very important.
THE THAMES
O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example as it is my theme!
Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
ÔÇô Denham
The Thames is still there and we're still here but I for one wouldn't
Talk to it even in my mind.
I look at it and think about it a lot and maybe even love it (sort of) but
I don't talk to it,
And even if I did talk to it I wouldn't tell it that I wanted to be
Like it,
And even if I did want to be like it, it certainly wouldn't be for
Those particular reasons.
For a start the Thames isn't exactly clear any longer, it's
Full of shit.
(Was it really clear in Denham's time anyway or did Denham just want
To see clarity?)
(And even if it was clear and even if it is clear, do I particularly want
Clarity anyway?)
(And what's wrong with things overflowing and a bit of dullness
And rage?)
So I don't mind calling the Thames beautiful but to hell with all
Those reservations.
Not that I can imagine praying anyway even in thought to something
That can't answer back,
But especially if the ritual means rigidly preferring its set of
Qualities to another,
Because excluding pain and cruelty I accept everything
In life and death
Chaos as well as order and the Post Office Tower as well
As the Thames.
OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HELL
Our father which art in hell,
To hell with thy name.
Thy kingdom came
But will soon have gone
From the earth which will then be heaven.
We try to give each other daily bread
And to forgive you your trespasses
As you failed to forgive us when you said we trespassed against you.
You led us into subjugation,
So deliver us from yourself,
For if thine is the kingdom,
The power and the glory
For ever and ever now are Man's.
Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation
But deliver us from evil,
For Thine is the Kingdom,
The Power, and the Glory,
For ever and ever, Amen.
A NEVER
Are farther witch out a never,
How loud beef high in aim?
Viking dumb calm,
Thigh will be dumb,
Honored as it is a never.
Givers Thursday are day libretto,
For givers are dress pussies
(a sweet fork if them that dress puss are gangsters.)
And leaders knot into them teaching.
Buddy, liver is primeval,
Four diners the king done
The bar in thug Larry
For River endeavor are men.
OUR BARBER
Our barber be barby bebba,
Babbow be by babe.
By bib-bub bub,
By bib be bub
Oberb abby bibby bebba.
Bibbub bib bay our baby beb
Ab borbib ber our bebbeby
Ab bee borbib beb bab bebba bebayba.
Beebub bob iboo bebayba
Bub bebibba ub bobeeby,
Bor by bib be bib-bub,
Be Bower, ab be Borby,
Bor ebber ab ebber, Ah beb.
WAR THERE
According to allied intelligence reports in heaven,
Bombs have flattened a nearby village, killing thy name.
South Vietnamese soldiers come
And heavy damage is done.
The Cua Viet, an estuary leading to Dongha, is in heaven,
According to the definition used by the United States command. Daily bread
Shells and rockets hit our trespasses,
And five thousand marines are surrounded by them that trespass against us.
Artillery fire is pounding the American naval base into temptation
And the base is unable to carry out its evil.
Between the demilitarized zone and the kingdom
Lie the airstrip, the repair yard, and the glory
Of intermittent bombardment, amen.
WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU
One fabulous whistle and I'll have
Hieronymous Bosch tackling nightmares,
Teddy Kennedy campaigning,
Tom Waldman buying dogs,
Odysseys Elytis answering introductions in iambic hysteria,
Giuseppe Ungaretti testing dactyls on desperate bums,
Albert Finney urging official talks,
Andy Warhol flying to Toronto to avoid unpleasantness,
Abraham Lincoln uniting nations in time,
Bob Dylan uncommunicative for effect,
Francois Truffaut in the know,
Thomas Pynchon and that guy
Friedrich Engles arranging everybody anticlockwise.
ACTUARIAL
White-collar worker cash out on loan
Affected the economy. The
Commodity boom, despite
Heavy capital expenditure, gave
Production cash, as that famous Abingdon proposition
Whose thesis illustrates "supply" or possibly "demand"
Had the figures for analysis.
Consumers were the problem at this point. Economics
And related disciplines attempt to run
Great consumer bulletins from actual
Or vague headquarters. Distribute them
Here or abroad like poetry,
Whatever your mood or condition.
OUR EXTENSION
Our extension which art in units,
Hallowed be thy shape.
Thy erotic iconography come,
Thy remarkable number of variations be done
On principle as it is in fact.
Give us this day our daily growth,
And forgive us our lecture on Wednesdays at 3.00 pm
As we forgive them that systematically expunge certain
Names from the official list of lecturers against us.
And lead us not into disagreement with Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe (1749ÔÇô1832) who emphasized the fact
That all living things are based structurally on a fairly
Small number of discrete designs, nor with James
Clerk Maxwell (1831ÔÇô1879) whose theory pointed to
The fact that light must exert a pressure on any surface
On which it falls,
But deliver us from bruises,
For thine is the incriminating evidence,
The pair of underpants and the motive,
For your own sake and from now on as follows:
Tell the operator you wish to place an overseas
Call, give her the name of the country you propose to
Call, and don't expect to hear all the answers.
UNBELIEVABLE
You may not believe this, but
A long time ago
There were people
Who actually do believe
In the existence of an invisible thing
They think of as a male parent
And speak to as if
It was ultimately responsible for everything, either silently
By themselves or all talking together
Out loud in rows. Back
Then in the distant past
There were people who believe
This thing is very important.
THE THAMES
O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example as it is my theme!
Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull;
Strong without rage; without o'erflowing, full.
ÔÇô Denham
The Thames is still there and we're still here but I for one wouldn't
Talk to it even in my mind.
I look at it and think about it a lot and maybe even love it (sort of) but
I don't talk to it,
And even if I did talk to it I wouldn't tell it that I wanted to be
Like it,
And even if I did want to be like it, it certainly wouldn't be for
Those particular reasons.
For a start the Thames isn't exactly clear any longer, it's
Full of shit.
(Was it really clear in Denham's time anyway or did Denham just want
To see clarity?)
(And even if it was clear and even if it is clear, do I particularly want
Clarity anyway?)
(And what's wrong with things overflowing and a bit of dullness
And rage?)
So I don't mind calling the Thames beautiful but to hell with all
Those reservations.
Not that I can imagine praying anyway even in thought to something
That can't answer back,
But especially if the ritual means rigidly preferring its set of
Qualities to another,
Because excluding pain and cruelty I accept everything
In life and death
Chaos as well as order and the Post Office Tower as well
As the Thames.
OUR FATHER WHICH ART IN HELL
Our father which art in hell,
To hell with thy name.
Thy kingdom came
But will soon have gone
From the earth which will then be heaven.
We try to give each other daily bread
And to forgive you your trespasses
As you failed to forgive us when you said we trespassed against you.
You led us into subjugation,
So deliver us from yourself,
For if thine is the kingdom,
The power and the glory
For ever and ever now are Man's.
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