Prepare to exit the forest        of men and women

Louisiana bumper sticker: JESUS DON’T LEAVE EARTH WITHOUT US 

It’s a great day to die, a great day to leave the body, he told the press
          before his Easter execution

When I go, I want my lips Smyth-sewn, none of that perfect-bound crap
          it doesn’t last

And burn me up        I don’t want any more real estate

No one promised you the light                                  or the morrow

Mother Helen predicts you will be doing better moneywise
          between March and may

In your past life you had something to do with animals
          She sees you in a hospital with animals way back in the 1800s

After all, you are not Gramsci, she said

Qui facit per alium facit per se

Sounds dirty doesn’t it

I wanted to offer you the bread of charity

Mercy, etc.

When she said she would write the book
          he said what direction

Take this down, then burn it

My faulty eschatology       pardon my french

the love bugs        hitting the windshield like something electric

Jack and Jill the pastor at St Gabriel calls them

Wonderful news       Sissy had seven little catahoulas
          Mr. Redwine in ecstasy