A Portrait of the Artist as "The Ol' Man"

Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!

This is what happens when you are reading Joyce,
and someone mentions Bunyan....

Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!Caution!

A Pilgrims Regress:

The Lament of a Simple Minded Christian.

He sees the Moon

and Van Gogh's Star

as he stumbles home

tonight, from the Bar

He, who once was

The Lord's Warrior

a Guardian of The Word

now hears the buzz

of the worrier

a Freudian, of the Dirge

A time of Drinking

Out, with "The Bards"

A time of thinking

sometimes, too hard

He, who once was

now feels inferior

fated, by The Word

having a new Cause

a simple writer with

Truths to merge

They talked of God

and "path's not taken"

of Mount's not trod

and Faith, misshapen

He, who once wished

to be Yahweh's Courier

Champion of His Word

now clenches his fist's

and must walk, further

some burden to purge

As he watches the Moon

and Van Gogh's Star

still stumbling home

tonight, from the Bar.

o'beedude26/July/07