NAPOWRIMO #7: PETER AND THE SONS OF THUNDER GO ON TOUR

For 2011's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is attempting to write thirty poems in thirty days without the help of writing prompts from other websites.

Many of these are still in some sort of draft stage, but that is the nature of the Work Table.

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PETER AND THE SONS OF THUNDER GO ON TOUR

Paul and the Preachers are the opening act
and they are rock stars.

They know the crowd.

They feed the crowd.

Paul plays the role of frontman perfectly
even with the thorn in his side

especially because of his thorn.

It excites the crowd

makes him, and the other band members,
one of “them.”

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Peter grabs the microphone as James straps on his bass
John his guitar.

Andrew takes the helm of the drum kit.

“Good evening, Cappadocia!”

But they are old and fatigued.

They play the expected hits
the number one singles:

“Nets of Plenty I” about being
fishers of men

“We Were There (with the Master)”
and its call to follow

“Nets of Plenty II” and its vision
of clean and unclean animals.

“Eat this at my table,”
Peter the Rock wails.

But the crowd has been wowed
by the opening act

remembers

the confronting yet comforting
words of Paul and the Preachers

and begins to mutter amongst itself

boos and hisses become stones thrown
violence threatened

unless a day’s wages are refunded
or “A Miracle” is performed.

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