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Converted from paper version of the Broad Ripple Gazette (v06n14)
Poetic Thoughts - Bad Peaches In Song And Poetry - by C.W. Pruitt II
posted: Jul. 10, 2009
Bad Peaches In Song And Poetry
On Otis Gibbs' latest CD Grandpa Walked A Picket Line he describes an opportunistic evangelist. The song "Preacher Steve" has several great lines. My favorite says, "Preacher Steve could walk on water while the whole world's dying of thirst."
My neighbor Niki Rae Voelpel wrote a poignant poem of a similar vein. Here it is:
Thelogian
So dignified in their nice suits they walk
Their education is shown by the way they talk
To reach the beggar their coins chime as they hit the floor
Being so far above the oppressed forgotten and poor
Of a loving God they go around and preach
Proclaiming of how the world we must go and reach
But with the outcasts in private they would never choose to eat
Forgetting a savior who embraced the worst of sinners and
Washed His enemy's feet
Niki 2005
cw@broadripplegazette.com
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