tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200256744634171757.post7384911619230843191..comments2023-08-22T00:39:59.680+12:00Comments on Beards!: Aotearoa Beards - 2; The Maori JesusBeret And Boinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02547349500135165830noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3200256744634171757.post-15894130744662344702013-07-10T16:09:56.138+12:002013-07-10T16:09:56.138+12:00Here is the whole thing. A great poem, by a dude w...Here is the whole thing. A great poem, by a dude with a great beard. James K Baxter. <br /><br />The Maori Jesus<br />- James K. Baxter<br /><br />I saw the Maori Jesus<br />Walking on Wellington Harbour.<br />He wore blue dungarees,<br />His beard and hair were long.<br />His breath smelled of mussels and paraoa.<br />When he smiled it looked like the dawn.<br />When he broke wind the little fishes trembled.<br />When he frowned the ground shook.<br />When he laughed everybody got drunk.<br /><br />The Maori Jesus came on shore<br />And picked out his twelve disciples.<br />One cleaned toilets in the railway station;<br />His hands were scrubbed red to get the shit out of the pores.<br />One was a call-girl who turned it up for nothing.<br />One was a housewife who had forgotten the Pill<br />And stuck her TV set in the rubbish can.<br />One was a little office clerk<br />Who'd tried to set fire to the Government Buldings.<br />Yes, and there were several others;<br />One was a sad old quean;<br />One was an alcoholic priest<br />Going slowly mad in a respectable parish.<br /><br />The Maori Jesus said, 'Man,<br />From now on the sun will shine.'<br /><br />He did no miracles;<br />He played the guitar sitting on the ground.<br /><br />The first day he was arrested<br />For having no lawful means of support.<br />The second day he was beaten up by the cops<br />For telling a dee his house was not in order.<br />The third day he was charged with being a Maori<br />And given a month in Mt Crawford.<br />The fourth day he was sent to Porirua<br />For telling a screw the sun would stop rising.<br />The fifth day lasted seven years<br />While he worked in the Asylum laundry<br />Never out of the steam.<br />The sixth day he told the head doctor,<br />'I am the Light in the Void;<br />I am who I am.'<br />The seventh day he was lobotomised;<br />The brain of God was cut in half.<br /><br />On the eighth day the sun did not rise.<br />It did not rise the day after.<br />God was neither alive nor dead.<br />The darkness of the Void,<br />Mountainous, mile-deep, civilised darkness<br />Sat on the earth from then till now.<br />MALC0LMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18001351962188721194noreply@blogger.com