Frabjous Times

ghazal poetry sequence

Alackaday next

ghazal
kiss me again, and weep,
for tonorrow is the rapture

there is no greater grace
than to hasten the rapture

why should she shampoo her hair
the weekend of the rapture?

put off that boat payment
till three days after the rapture

go, take my car, my home,
you children of the rapture

death to apostates, Hope cried,
still she was spurned by the rapture

as he's sown now has he reaped
thunderously amidst the rapture

she had her chance, the whore
no takebacks granted by the rapture

kleenex and aspirin
missed keenly ever since the rapture

fear, uncertainty, and doubt
in tankerloads flood the rapture

why won't he toss out the trash?
nobody told him about any rapture

the sheep crop short the bluestem,
they claim their range freed by rapture

you go on, dear, I'll sit here,
and wait for a second rapture
Originally published: 2007/01/20 21:39:21