All Comments on 'Technicolor Canticle Rant'

Tom Waits " Step Right Up"?

That's what this reminds me of...and I agree with the sentiment by the way.

Some great lines in here...my favorite:

~God has promised me cigars

and starched collars

and an El Dorado

to drive backwards to Glory.

InRi on the crucifix cleverly replaced

with a neon ?Thank you!?~

You know that's not far off...

Nice job

amen brother

He stole my comment! I immediately thought of Wait's "Step Right Up." This is bitingly funny--your vision makes me long for the more gently hucksterism of Billy Grahamn. :)

This poem was started some 35 years ago, pre-dating Waits. Ferlinghetti's "Christ Climbed Down" had just come out, and I was confronted with the realization that I had to reject the "pre-acceptance" from Andover-Newton Theological Seminary.

Accepting that I was too fascinated with power, sex, money and sin to be satisfied simply talking about them, I opted to major in Theatre. That decision saved me from eventually reading about a defrocked minister up in Maine!

Anyway, the time had come to send the poem out and finally leave it alone. The cynical humor is one part fear, one part lust... thus the "rant".

What is 'InRi'? You always have something I need to look up. I like the work, I could preach right through it.

Made me think of an old Delbert song: 'I'll get you into heaven, right here on channel seven, put your hands on the

TV and pray'.

....jd. You always manage to come up with something unusual yet riveting.......snadspike...inRi is inscribed on the crucifix, above Jesus' head. Quick English trabslation = King of the Jews.....that's a lot of years of Catholic education talking.

...in the New Poems thread over at the forum.

A slick and smarmy feel, JD4G! Glad you choose poetry instead.

I like. Great ef'in work george.

elmer gantry! / you have some filing cabinet of information at your mind and fingers / and i find your willingness to go in new directions and fear of stagnancy very admirable / it makes me want to look on unsearched roads myself /