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| Ernest Hemingway (David Levine) |
"If I am anything I am a Catholic...I cannot imagine taking any other religion seriously." (Ernest Hemingway)
Tuesday December 01, 2020
Flying the furled flag
of permanent defeat still
born out of boredom:
the feeding frenzy of the
American Tradition.
of permanent defeat still
born out of boredom:
the feeding frenzy of the
American Tradition.
Wednesday December 02, 2020
The semantic key
to The Old Man And The Sea?
Old man and the See:
the Virgin of Cobre is
the noble Nobel winner.
Thursday December 03, 2020
This Water Bearer
bears witness to his own birth,
and to his once stoned
life outside of the Trappist
trappings of Abraham's sons.
bears witness to his own birth,
and to his once stoned
life outside of the Trappist
trappings of Abraham's sons.
Friday December 04, 2020
He’s living his life
as if he is already
in the Third Order.
In this way he humbly serves
the priestly Society.
Saturday December 05, 2020
He made his retreat
and retrieved the timeless truth.
From Modernism
to Thomism: Saint Pius
the X is sine qua non.
Sunday December 06, 2020
He conceives a plan:
from Third Order to Brother.
“Mann Tracht, Und Gott Lacht”
(so the Yiddish saying goes).
Matthew six verse thirty four.
Monday December 07, 2020
Transfiguration
is the physically distant
way to disappear.
The Usus Antiquior
prevents contamination.
Tuesday December 08, 2020
He looked into her
soft eyes while quoting Our Lord:
“What shall it profit
a man if he gains the whole
world but loses his own soul?”
Wednesday December 09, 2020
So much sabotage
happening in such a short
period of time.
Through almost no fault of his
own he's been tagged and labeled.
Thursday December 10, 2020
He once had time to
indulge the Latin indult.
Now he must decide
because it waits for no man,
no women, and no children.
Friday December 11, 2020
New Managers Course.
His awarded IBM
certification
means so much more to him now
that he too is managing.
Saturday December 12, 2020
Taming the body
of its many desires
is the beginning,
the middle, and the end game.
Eat less and move more or less.
Sunday December 13, 2020
This very sick monk:
the quietest and meekest,
most unobtrusive
man, who desires to walk
with God and be seen no more.
Monday December 14, 2020
He has kept silence
in his fashion for ten years
since the system failed
after twenty two long years.
There is nothing more to say.
Tuesday December 15, 2020
He’s disappearing
inside of the church of the
transfiguration,
even before he even
walks through the two wooden doors.
Wednesday December 16, 2020
He sat back and watched
him do nothing for the past
nine months of the year.
Now when he's needed the most
he starts working and it fails.
Thursday December 17, 2020
It’s two down and one
more to go before the year
gives up its last gasp.
He’s been preparing for this
since the middle of the year.
Friday December 18, 2020
He will chill until
the six pills that he consumed
kick into action.
Six is one of three numbers
that he always relies on.
Saturday December 19, 2020
Solitary Man:
part of the spiritual
fringe contingency
manifesting His precious
baptism of desire.
Sunday December 20, 2020
The immigration
amnesty decision in
nineteen eighty six
gave her family the right
to life, liberty, and peace.
Monday December 21, 2020
He named her also,
along with all the other
creatures brought to him.
How she was both made and marked
is based on the ancient way.
Tuesday December 22, 2020
Shifting the focus
of his primal desires:
the bad to the best.
It’s been hit and miss, at best,
but Her love makes it better.
Wednesday December 23, 2020
Eventually
he chose not to dignify
them with a response.
To choose otherwise only
perpetuates their problem.
Thursday December 24, 2020
Reducing it down
to thirty one syllables.
That is all I get.
It's the daily maximum.
It's the yearly minimum.
Friday December 25, 2020
The celebration
of Our Lord's incarnation
early this morning
marked the private end of his
relative obscurity
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