Little Joe Gould
Seeking God
[FONT="]Oh, Most Holy Ineffable One![/FONT][FONT="][/FONT]
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[FONT="]Oh, ineffable one! [/FONT]
[FONT="]Can you teach me to dance like those enthroned on lotus petals?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, most content one![/FONT]
[FONT="]Im weary and morose and I seek comfort in your wisdom! [/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, most magnanimous one![/FONT]
[FONT="]Can you teach me to rise above my pettiness and be seated among the sages? [/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, most munificent one![/FONT]
[FONT="]Can you cure my most horrendous of proclivities, my hoarding of green paper?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, most effulgent one![/FONT]
[FONT="]I seek to bask in your glow as the lizards on the rocks before the noonday sun[/FONT]
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[FONT="]Im a seeker of truth and have performed a vivisection on my life[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ive been lead astray, deep into the numinous forest by the sneaky shepherd[/FONT]
[FONT="]Only for my soul to sink into its own depths of sorrow, for I am most unworthy[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, Most Righteous One![/FONT]
[FONT="]Ive been aberrant in my ways and Ive heard your admonitions in the sibilant sounds of serpents. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Im a seeker of pearls and the greatest of which is your most Heavenly Kingdom[/FONT]
[FONT="]The quintessence of my sins is my belief that I could have lived without your guidance[/FONT]
[FONT="]How naïve and absurd! Surely Ive been lied to by Zarathustra![/FONT]
[FONT="]My lips have spilled Your illustrious name in arrogance as a blasphemy upon a blasphemy![/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, Most Inexorable One![/FONT]
[FONT="]Can you teach me to be as sturdy as a mountain in the face of adversity?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, Most Holy Ineffable One![/FONT]
[FONT="]I cannot play the façade of a henotheist any longer! [/FONT]
[FONT="]I must become an anvil to bear the blows of asceticism before I can become a stylite![/FONT]
[FONT="]To you I must sacrifice it all![/FONT]
[FONT="] [/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, ineffable one! [/FONT]
[FONT="]Can you teach me to dance like those enthroned on lotus petals?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, most content one![/FONT]
[FONT="]Im weary and morose and I seek comfort in your wisdom! [/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, most magnanimous one![/FONT]
[FONT="]Can you teach me to rise above my pettiness and be seated among the sages? [/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, most munificent one![/FONT]
[FONT="]Can you cure my most horrendous of proclivities, my hoarding of green paper?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, most effulgent one![/FONT]
[FONT="]I seek to bask in your glow as the lizards on the rocks before the noonday sun[/FONT]
[FONT="] [/FONT]
[FONT="]Im a seeker of truth and have performed a vivisection on my life[/FONT]
[FONT="]Ive been lead astray, deep into the numinous forest by the sneaky shepherd[/FONT]
[FONT="]Only for my soul to sink into its own depths of sorrow, for I am most unworthy[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, Most Righteous One![/FONT]
[FONT="]Ive been aberrant in my ways and Ive heard your admonitions in the sibilant sounds of serpents. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Im a seeker of pearls and the greatest of which is your most Heavenly Kingdom[/FONT]
[FONT="]The quintessence of my sins is my belief that I could have lived without your guidance[/FONT]
[FONT="]How naïve and absurd! Surely Ive been lied to by Zarathustra![/FONT]
[FONT="]My lips have spilled Your illustrious name in arrogance as a blasphemy upon a blasphemy![/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, Most Inexorable One![/FONT]
[FONT="]Can you teach me to be as sturdy as a mountain in the face of adversity?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Oh, Most Holy Ineffable One![/FONT]
[FONT="]I cannot play the façade of a henotheist any longer! [/FONT]
[FONT="]I must become an anvil to bear the blows of asceticism before I can become a stylite![/FONT]
[FONT="]To you I must sacrifice it all![/FONT]