to think your riddles and ask for water
rock which needs to be beaten not once nor twice
caulked for your storm i have no sinkable ship
dug over gardens wild and overgrown and the next year they were so again
firewood cut in the summer by winter i was elsewhere
waved at the roadside so somebody would give me a lift
carried mortar on naked shoulders way up ladders leaned to the scaffolding
sparks i saw of the pick axe on stones moved from village to village seeling insurance
behind the large glass windows in the murhard street office i stayed alive
cried high above owen for an entire afternoon
wrecked 5 cars for the public benefit drove 8 others till they were ready 
                                                                                                             for the scrapheap
paid interests instead of collecting them and instead heard songs in trembling strings
too highly raised did not love my neighbor enough and your sabbath 
                                                                                        broke it continually full of hope
a nuisance i was for the citizens of sodom and despaired over the lords of gomorrha
passed their schools sideways and never stepped into their shoes

but now thy wind may raise me up to the heap of shards of the city
to teach children that they should highly esteem the circumstance of their birth
that their comportment be holy and they avoid what turns mean them
and conceiveth them as an average calculates them as a crowd
a means that is to be used and wooed that they may follow
the speakers of brotherly lies who chain them thus making them equal
for our difference's sake are we made and depicted and 
                                                                                   he blots out all who suspends this

when david was old he counted his forces
you were angry and left him the choice among three penalties
seven years of famine hitting the country or that he would have to flee for three months
                                                                 or three days of pestilence among the people

he chose what did not concern him and during the first day there died 70,000
but when on the second day the angel started to count by the hill moria
he saw it from the roof of his house beutifuleyed and brownish 
                                                                                  a descendant of ruth the moabitan
but just across there still lived jebusites survivors of joshua's invasion
with the prince of the town which david first conquered through joab
and he called what have these sheep done unto thee? let your hand be against me 
                                                                                              and the house of my father
he went out and bought the threshing floor for 50 zekel including a cow
                                                 which he is said to have butchered and burned for thee
but certainly because of this thou didst not end the plague
but solomon in his silliness let a temple be built for you from gold
                                                                         the amount of which remains in the dark
divided was the country the people dispersed
and the place knows no end to conflicts
with his horn in the thorn bush the ram was entangled
which abraham took and by which isaac lived