Friday, December 16, 2022

that's what i'm talking about willis

it's interesting
how the preacher, or priest,
or minister,
can find a single line
in the Bible,
and run with it.
he'll analyze
the words, in Greek, in Latin,
and finally
in the language that 
you know.
he'll take it apart like
fileting a fish,
picking the fine bones out.
carefully dissecting the hidden
meaning.
he connects the dots
to another verse
in the Old Testament,
about two hundred pages
before that
said by a man with a name
beginning with Z, that
no one uses anymore,
because it's too hard
to pronounce.
see that, he says. hitting his
hand against the pulpit
which wakes everyone up,
do you see that? yes. yes.
that's what i'm talking about.
but he doesn't end
it with Willis.
as i would.

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