Our Reading is taken
David,
I have some confusion between the identity of the "I" referenced in each of the 3 stanzas:
Stanza 1: "...I have heard these words so many times,.."
Stanza 2: "...I think of Help!,the moptops entering by different doors to meetin one fab pad..."
Stanza 3: "...I don't find you walking in the garden..."
I alternate between the poet, the disciple and perhaps Christ himself.
Maybe it is Christ himself all the way through. I'm just not sure.
The title "Our reading is taken" is not helpful to me
Plus the tone of this seems to move quckly from playful, to wosrhipful and even irreverant.
The clever Beatles refernece is startling at first but actually seems to fit well.
Maybe I just don't know my New Testament well enough. Although I did look up John 14.
That's all I can say right know.
Others may be more servicable to this piece than I have been. I hope so. It certainly deserves a more capapble reading.
Bill
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