tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:/blogs/words?p=2
Words
2019-04-05T14:05:39+09:00
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays
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tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:Post/2937832
2017-07-12T20:45:00+09:00
2022-01-22T09:54:41+09:00
Marching In
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Marching In</strong><br><br> by Phil Norton<br><br>Saint Bad Mouth Betty</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Jimmy the Snitch</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Timpani de Lullaby</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Low Down Lying Son of a Ditch</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Indiscretion </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint No Way Out</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Maudlin Jane of Unwed Dreams</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Francis of the Shout</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">They're marching in</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">They're marching in</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Oh Yes the saints</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Are marching in </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">They're marching in</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">They're marching in</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Oh Yes the saints</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Are marching in </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Hoochi Koochi Mama</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Brass Knuckle Bill</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint All Night Diner</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint If The Gutter Don't Get You The Dog Catchers Will</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Travesty May</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Never Be True</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Standing on the Corner in a Puddle Of Moon</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint I Wouldn't Do That If I Was You</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Chorus</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Lethargy</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint I Owe You</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Buckshot Kate</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Muddling Through</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint What's The Point</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint I Don't Know </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Tragedy Jack</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Go Go Go</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Gertrude of the Lazy Garter</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Timothy of the Last Hurrah</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Oscar of the Dented Trilby </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Martha of the Lonely Lips</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Genevieve de Fishnets</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Frank of the Flickering Neon</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Troubadour</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Margo of the Drowning Smile</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Saint Daniel of the Broken Shoestrings</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;"> </p>
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays
tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:Post/3782547
2015-07-18T18:07:06+09:00
2015-07-18T18:07:06+09:00
Unspoken
<div><span class="font_regular"><strong>Unspoken</strong></span></div>
<div> </div><span class="font_regular" style="font-size: 12px;">Busted headlight</span>
<div><span class="font_regular">Missing wheel</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Dead transmission</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">That's how I feel</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">No destination</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">And no bus token</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">All 'cause this love inside of me </span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">remains unspoken</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Unspoken</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Unspoken</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Empty bottle</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Burnt-out sign</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Run-down wristwatch </span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Run out of time</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">My picture's faded</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">The mirror's broken</span></div>
<div>
<div><span class="font_regular">All 'cause this love inside of me </span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">remains unspoken</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Unspoken</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Unspoken</span></div>
</div>
<div> </div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Silence isn't golden it's a cell</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">It's not that I can't feel</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">I just can't tell</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">My heart is sealed in walls of stone</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">They keep me safe </span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">And so alone</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">The password from my prison cell</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Is "you"</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Rusted hinges</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Bolted door</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Half-way staircase</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Can't find the floor</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">The window's shuttered</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">The lock won't open</span></div>
<div>
<div><span class="font_regular">All 'cause this love inside of me </span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">remains unspoken</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Unspoken</span></div>
<div><span class="font_regular">Unspoken</span></div>
</div>
<div> </div>
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays
tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:Post/3782546
2015-07-18T18:00:42+09:00
2022-01-29T06:40:08+09:00
Postcard From the Future
<p>Dear Yesterday,<br> <br>NOW is so fast the weather isn't here yet. NOW is big like a brother and more expensive than a greasy quantum mechanic’s bill for overhauling your fate. NOW pops out of every second's birthday cake wearing nothing but a watch. NOW does a mobius striptease to the beat of your heart. NOW is half-naked. The future is NOW (but just a little bit later).<br> <br>Sincerely,<br> Tomorrow (and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow)</p>
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays
tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:Post/2971514
2014-05-26T20:44:06+09:00
2022-05-28T10:03:42+09:00
The Horse-Headed Goddess of Mercy
<strong><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The Horse-Headed Goddess of Mercy </span></strong>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-family: Helvetica;"> </p><br><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> By Philip Norton aka Preachermansays<br><br>May the Monkey-Tailed God of Jubilation show me how to swing<br>May the Eagle-Eyed God of Elevation take me underneath his wing</span>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Bat-Blind God of Navigation help me to see</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And may the Horse-Headed Goddess of Mercy have mercy on me</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Nine-Lives Cat of Resurrection give me one more chance</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Spider-Legged God of Boogie-Woogie invite me to the dance</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Heron God grace my stance with dignity</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And may the Horse-Headed Goddess of Mercy have mercy on me</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Chorus:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Mercy on me. Mercy on me.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Horse-Headed Goddess of Mercy have mercy on me</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Mercy on me. Mercy on me.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Horse-Headed Goddess of Mercy have mercy on me</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Lion-Throated God of Proclamation unleash my roar</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Dragon-Breathed Goddess of Destruction benevolently pass my door </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Chicken Goddess fly the coup and set me free</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And may the Horse-Headed Goddess of Mercy have mercy on me</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Chorus</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I may stumble. And I may fall. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">But I got me an equine deity to help me through it all. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Along the road to serenity, </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I got my goddess trotting next to me</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Mayfly God of Carpe Diem keep me in the day</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Hundred-Knee-ed Centipede of Humble kindly teach me how to pray</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">May the Canary God of Premonition tell me when to flee</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">And may the Horse-Headed Goddess of Mercy have mercy on me</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Chorus </span></p>
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays
tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:Post/2939235
2014-05-12T01:07:48+09:00
2022-05-28T10:07:42+09:00
Stilt-walkers
<b>Stilt-walkers</b><br><br> by Philip Norton aka Preachermansays<br><br>Remember, you come from <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px">a Long family of stilt-walkers</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4px">.</span> We live amongst the clouds and the albatross. Our thoughts are lofty; our dreams are taller than the ancient mountain ash. When I first met your father, he towered 80-foot above the pavement. He held out his hand and offered me a new kind of longing. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px"><i>Come, and teeter with me on the brink of Heaven</i></span>, he whispered. For our wedding, his parents gave us stilts tall as skyscrapers. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px"><i>May you always stand together</i></span>, they said, <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px"><i>and remember the secret to a happy marriage</i></span>: <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px"><i>Never look down; never look back</i>.</span> And so, like two children spinning together, we hold hands and stare into each other’s eyes to maintain our balance. He steadies me. I steady him. We fly like buttresses, joyful on our precarious limbs. Our Love is one of life’s sweet dangers. Below us, the safe and the cautious remain strangers.
<p> </p>
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays
tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:Post/2939233
2014-05-12T00:57:21+09:00
2014-05-12T06:09:51+09:00
Postcard from a Lost Thing
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><strong>Postcard from a Lost Thing</strong><br><br> by Philip Norton aka Preachermansays</span><br> <p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota';"><span class="font_large"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Dear Loser, </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota';"><span class="font_large"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I’m over here. Somewhere you haven’t thought of yet. I suppose it’s as bad a place as any, since by the definition of my condition, I am somewhere that has escaped your searching and longing and frustrated scrounging. I am lonely. But it is in some ways nicer to be an object of your desire, than one in your possession. And yet, I am concurrently upset at your having managed to have lost me in the first place. I just hope you don’t forget all about me after a few weeks. The weather is dusty. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota';"><span class="font_large"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Love, </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota';"><span class="font_large"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> Lost</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota'; min-height: 17px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: 'Handwriting - Dakota';"><span class="font_large"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">p.s. check under the sofa stupid</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 13px;"> </p>
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays
tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:Post/2939232
2014-05-12T00:50:55+09:00
2022-05-28T10:07:22+09:00
13 Ways of Looking at a Minute
<b>13 Ways of Looking at a Minute </b><br><i style="color: rgb(35, 35, 35); font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13px;"> (Winner of Glebe Books Poetry Cup)</i>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35); min-height: 14px;"><br> by Philip Norton aka Preachermansays</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"><br>1</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">in the face of the clock </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">a constellation of minutes</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">2</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">after they had all sat down to dinner,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">in walked</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">an uncomfortable minute</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">3</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">the minute he touched her was</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">longer than most</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">4</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">it can also be pronounced</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">minu te</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">5</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">the war had been such a mess;</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">many minutes are still unaccounted for</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">6</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">in a minute he would arrive home,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">but it was such a dark corridor</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">7</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">more precious than a diamond in the crown,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">a minute on the throne</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">8</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">the snowflakes fell</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">as alike as minutes</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">9</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">for a minute he thought</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">he had met her before</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">10</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">there's the year, the decade, the century, the millennium,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">and then there's the minute</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">11</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">the minutes, like blackbirds,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">hovered high above</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">in circles</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">12</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">each minute is a poem</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">13</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; color: rgb(35, 35, 35);">just a minute</p>
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays
tag:www.preachermansays.com,2005:Post/2937809
2014-05-10T22:26:46+09:00
2022-05-28T10:02:13+09:00
This is an Emergency
<p><strong>T<span style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px;">HIS</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: 1px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px;">IS</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: 1px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px;">AN</span><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify; letter-spacing: 1px;"> E</span></strong><span style="font-family: Garamond; text-align: justify; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px;"><strong>MERGENCY</strong><br><br> by Philip Norton aka Preachermansays</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 13px; text-align: justify;">Ladies and Gentlemen. Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention please. </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px">T</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px;">HIS</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px;">IS</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px"> </span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px;">AN</span><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px"> E</span><span style="font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px;">MERGENCY</span>. This is not a test. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">This is an actual Emergency. The world is not going to end today. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">I repeat. The world is not going to end today. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">You must get out of bed. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">The dogs are still barking for wishbones. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">The cats are still tugging on heart strings. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">The dreams are still perched on the horizon </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">like ducks on a fence. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">This is an Emergency; it’s just another day. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Old Walt dances with a memory of garter belt; </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">says it keeps his hopes up. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">The journey of a thousand miles </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">begins with desire. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">The quick brown dog humps the lazy fox, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">because he knows that this is an emergency. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">It’s just another day. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">So staple your eyelids open. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Steal all the faith you can lay your soul upon. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Sink defiantly. Sink slow. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Believe in your insanity. Invest in your inanity. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Place your hand over your heart and repeat after me, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px"><i>I am still here</i></span>. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Because, this is an Emergency; </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">it’s just another day. So do not wait. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">So, do not wait. No sir, do not wait </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">for time to tap you on the shoulder </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">and ask you to dance. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Tease the moment next to you. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Slide <i>The Dress of The Now</i> off your shoulder. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Show a bit of vulnerable skin.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;"> Look the future in the eye, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">and say<i>, </i><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px"><i>take me I’m yours</i></span>. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Then lick you lips. Bat your eyes. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Bait your breath. Tempt your Fate. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">And tempt it like you mean it. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Because, this is an Emergency people; </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">it’s just another day. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">It’s just another day. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">This is It. We are Here. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">This is it people; we are here.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">So spread out your blanket on this little </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">patch of the universe and </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">picnic for all you are worth. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Picnic with your potions and your notions. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Picnic with your unsung devotions. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Picnic until the cows come home. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">And when they do, invite them to join you. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Ask them to teach you about their </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">divine, bovine sense of un-urgency, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">because this is an Emergency; </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">it’s just another day. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">It’s just another day. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond; min-height: 14px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Okay now people, place your hand over your heart </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">and repeat after me. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">Come on. Place your hand over your heart, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;">and repeat after me, </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px"><i>Boom Ba Boom. Boom Ba Boom. </i></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; font-size: 13px; font-family: Garamond;"><span style="letter-spacing: 1.0px"><i>Boom Ba Boom. Boom Ba Boom.</i></span></p>
Phil Norton aka Preachermansays