for kenneth patchen

[Alan Sondheim]

for kenneth patchen

when christ spoke on the mount
the winds were terrible
people couldn't see 'im
quite a distance, they said, later
quite a distance
and the winds and the clouds
the storms, too, the weather was furious
so they wrote what they thought they heard
and spoke what they thought they saw
and chances were pretty good
that he wasn't there at all
http://www.asondheim.org/mount.mov

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