A compilation of noteworthy non-sequitors

The Apostle Paul was never the same

After the trip to Damascus

Ulysses should have sailed quickly home

From the Trojan war

We usurped a continent

Only to contract an anti-immigration virus

The great depression

Followed the gilded age

World War II came on the heels

Of the war to end all wars

The fall of the soviet empire

Rendered the cold war moot

Lincoln’s assassination

Concluded a life of valiant service

Kennedy’s death in Dallas

Was preceded by Camelot

Obama winning the White House

Came out of nowhere

Your life and mine followed from nothing

And will return to the same

History is a compilation
Of noteworthy non-sequitors

Prodigal Propitiation

She said take down those poems
No one reads them anyway
As if I were a cigarette butt to crush
With her boot heel
Only she doesn't smoke or wear boots
I don't even smoke, unless you count dreams
And I hung up my steel toes for 
Moccasins, long ago

I drag out a cross and say
Here, nail me to this
For the sins of all men
Sort of the first all-women's Calvary
And I think of the word propitiation

We had our kitchen 
Redone recently and I can't
Remember the word countertop
It comes out sink or shelf
Suddenly I'm cutting onions on
The thing, kitchen countertop
But by god, I'm gonna be a savior
A propitiation

My tongue keeps rolling in my mouth
Like I've seen cow tongues do
Til I think it'll start bleeding
But I doubt they'll write a New Testament over that

On my birthday I got a call
She had bought tickets to
See our team play
Little did I know
Those were my last days
In the graceful land of the uber confident 
Now I'm back where I started 
Doubted by everyone that matters 
Especially me

Welcome home, young man
Let's kill some battered tofu 
Eat, drink and be merry
For tomorrow, the sun may never rise


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