Go
go to the many
Feed them all many
enjoy at last suffer not fast anymore
Come together
Celebrate everyone
Go and celebrate with thy kind thy brethren
And Nehemiah continued, “Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. This is a sacred day before our Lord. Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!”
12/4/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
Nehemiah 8:10
The mighty eagle feasts
The sleek swift fish leaps and steals
The lovely meat for himself
Bless the fish who did not base the
Flawless beauty of his faith on doubt
The mighty eagle circles low for he seeks revenge
And I am the widow of elegies
I go back to the follies of my youth to see
How ruinous my last move was against your love
The rooster calls us
To the recurrent feasts of vultures
‘The Spirits amongst you, have prepared a table before us,’
The vultures vaunt vociferously
‘What Spirits…?’
‘The Spirits that outsmarts your soldiers
Which your Justicia herself cannot sentence’
‘Come quickly,’ they told themselves
‘To the butchers’ table of Plateau
Their losses are our own gains.
It’s no business of ours
If they fail to leak the linchpins behind the lynches
And unmask their monstrous marionettes and masquerades
That now make us stable staple meals’
II
How long would we give free reins to these awful feasts?
And watch the cruel carnage of our kith and kin?
Hide, when henchmen hang our households
Who knows whose name is in the noose already?
When shall we seize these scarpering Spirits?
Before they host the vultures to another banquet
chili dogs in Queens
crabs and Pabst in Baltimore
and beans in Boston
All the feasts will sing
Let us dance
Let us sing
Let us celebrate
The whole world will dance
The whole world will sing
The whole world will celebrate
Even the feasts will sing
Will dance
Will celebrate
Passover
Christmas
The Prophet's Birthday
Mother's Day
Labor Day
Valentine's Day
All the feasts will sing
All the feasts will dance
All the feasts will celebrate
All the feasts will say
Life is beautiful
Life is a short dream
Let us enjoy it.
FEASTS OF JOY
The Icy Vinegars of Sorrow
sweeten
Sparkling Summer Wines of Joy