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August 23, 1989

What do I do with this God?

Filed under: Growing Up — Vasilios Theodorakis @ 6:00 pm

She seeks…
      Guidance through the Book;
      Wisdom in the sky;
      Refreshments from the twirly knob above the kitchen sink.
Then she waits…
      Knowing the solution will be revealed,
      For all God’s mechanistic creations
      Come with instructions and home delivery.
Thus…
      The only accessories one needs,
      Is the serious, yet cool hard word from a disintegrating human being
      Which she definitely qualifies as being.
And of course…
      A bit of ‘umph’ from the gentleman Himself.
      Then and only then is everything guaranteed to become
      Hunky Dory.

Unfortunately…
      It never quite works out that way.
      The Creator, it would seem, has an admirable sense of humour;
      Tossing someone else’s left overs into the solution stew,
      Just when its about to be served.
Yet…
      Even this complication does not phase her.
      She rises up,
      Takes it with a grain of sodium chloride replacement,
      And knuckles down to a few more hours of bartering.

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Copyright © Vasilios Theodorakis 1989

August 16, 1989

A Father’s Stand…

Filed under: Growing Up — Vasilios Theodorakis @ 6:00 pm

Melodrama rules…
It’s coarse lines, spun out in momentous speech!
Symbols in flowing parody
Touch on stereotypes,
Then formalize in dramatic assumptions,
And blackened extrapolations.

Such warmth… aahhh… drawn from the stills of Antarctic.
Such sweetness… oohhh… modeled on the taste of fermenting gall.
What could ‘top off’ such a script,
Rooted in a tangle of pain and unsatisfied expectations?
One thing I tell you… one thing… he said.
A silence, a withdrawal, an isolation ‘par excellence’.

And so it was…

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Copyright © Vasilios Theodorakis 1989
(Poem From 1989 – exact date of writing unknown)

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