Luther’s Creed (Restart)
The Lutheran Doctrine
framed on the chapel door
Read lines from the two shot rambles
You track in pamphlets and shoe snuffed camels
under your feet
Boots, snow and sleet, in Germany
A warm Summer, Miami Beach, in futon sandals
Turning loops at the round-about
I’ll have grown up by the time you see me
peeling dead skin in the nursery
RX agents and optimistic patients,
Framed hopes on the polished floor
Track in notes from the doc’s preamble
I am a drugged up child, the clock strikes
and the first leaper laced with broken lungs and virus pool blood
said “I am a hooker, please help me”
And died away from a family in the hospital streets
Turning loops at the round-about
I hope to hear your sermon
The feeling of it behind me as I’m being directed ahead
Moving along past to one last exhibit
And being hurried a path, leaving behind buried fads
I hope that your sermon’s as clear as their song
(Restart)