NP: A prayer

Glenn Scheper glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
Thu Feb 21 18:40:15 CST 2008


Jacques Prévert: PATER NOSTER Our Father who art in heaven Stay there And we'll 
stay here on earth Which is sometimes so pretty With its mysteries of New York 
And its mysteries of Paris At least as good as that of the Trinity With its 
little canal at Ouircq Its great wall of China Its river of Morlaix Its candy 
canes With its Pacific Ocean And its two basins in the Tuileries With its good 
children and bad people With all the wonders of the world Which are here Simply 
on the earth Offered to everyone Strewn about Wondering at the wonders of 
themselves And daring not avow it As a naked pretty girl dares not show herself 
With the world's outrageous misfortunes Which are legion With legionaries With 
torturers With the masters of this world The masters with their priests their 
traitors and their troops With the seasons With the years With the pretty girls 
and with the old bastards With the straw of misery rotting in the steel of 
cannons.
  -- http://www.xs4all.nl/~vinkring/
  Kersvers

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
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