Sometime during eternity <br />some guys show up <br />and one of them <br />who shows up real late <br />is a kind of carpenter <br />from some square-type place <br />like Galilee <br />and he starts wailing <br />and claiming he is hep <br />to who made heaven <br />and earth <br />and that the cat <br />who really laid it on us <br />is his Dad <br /> <br />And moreover <br />he adds <br />It's all writ down <br />on some scroll-type parchments <br />which some henchmen <br />leave lying around the Dead Sea somewheres <br />a long time ago <br />and which you won't even find <br />for a coupla thousand years or so <br />or at least for <br />ninteen hundred and fortyseven <br />of them <br />to be exact <br />and even then <br />nobody really believes them <br />or me <br />for that matter <br /> <br />You're hot <br />they tell him <br /> <br />And they cool him <br /> <br />They stretch him on the Tree to cool <br />And everybody after that <br />is always making models <br />of this Tree <br />with Him hung up <br />and always crooning His name <br />and calling Him to come down <br />and sit in <br />on their combo <br />as if he is THE king cat <br />who's got to blow <br />or they can't quite make it <br /> <br />Only he don't come down <br />from His Tree <br /> <br />Him just hang there <br />on His Tree <br />looking real Petered out <br />and real cool <br />and also <br />according to a roundup <br />of late world news <br />from the usual unreliable sources <br />real dead<br /><br />Lawrence Ferlinghetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sometime-during-eternity/
