THE OUTRAGED SPLEEN OF ZION

WFRL: Ochi Chernye

2009-12-15T07:18:00.001-05:00

If my people,
who are called by my name,
will humble themselves
and pray
and seek my face
and turn from their wicked ways,
then will I hear from heaven
and will forgive their sin
and will heal their land.
Now my eyes will be open
and my ears attentive
to the prayers offered in this place.
~ 2 Chronicles 7

WFRL: My Back Pages

2009-12-15T05:39:00.001-05:00

Crimson flames tied through my ears
Rollin' high and mighty traps
Pounced with fire on flaming roads
Using ideas as my maps
"We'll meet on edges, soon," said I
Proud 'neath heated brow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Half-wracked prejudice leaped forth
"Rip down all hate," I screamed
Lies that life is black and white
Spoke from my skull. I dreamed
Romantic facts of musketeers
Foundationed deep, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Girls' faces formed the forward path
From phony jealousy
To memorizing politics
Of ancient history
Flung down by corpse evangelists
Unthought of, though, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I'd become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
Yes, my guard stood hard
when abstract threats
Too noble to neglect
Deceived me into thinking
I had something to protect
Good and bad, I define these terms
Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I'm younger than that now.
~ The Prophet Zimmy

Hear this, you kings!
Listen, you rulers!
I will sing to the LORD,
I will sing;
I will make music to the LORD,
the God of Israel.
~ Judges 5

WFRL: Visions

2009-12-14T16:40:00.000-05:00

He said, Listen to my words:
When a prophet of the LORD is among you,
I reveal myself to him in visions,
I speak to him in dreams.
~ Numbers 12

WFRL: Learning To Fly

2009-12-14T12:44:00.001-05:00

Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reel
A fatal attraction is holding me fast
How can I escape this irresistible grasp?

Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to find my way home
Unladen, empty and turned to stone

A soul in tension, that's learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Can't keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night

There's no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Can't keep my mind from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earthbound misfit, I

The sky receded like a scroll,
rolling up,
and every mountain and island
was removed from its place.
~ Revelation 6

WFRL: I'm A Man...

2009-12-14T08:33:00.004-05:00

Then I heard a voice from heaven say,
"Write:
Blessed are the dead
who die in the Lord from now on."
"Yes," says the Spirit,
"they will rest from their labor,
for their deeds will follow them."
So I looked, and there before me was a white cloud,
and seated on the cloud was one like a son of man
with a crown of gold on his head
and a sharp sickle in his hand.
Then another angel came out of the temple
and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud,
"Take your sickle and reap,
because the time to reap has come,
for the harvest of the earth is ripe."
~ Revelation 14

WFRL: Something She Said...

2009-12-13T19:58:00.004-05:00

Brothers, do not slander one another.
Anyone who speaks against his brother
or judges him speaks against the law
and judges it.
When you judge the law,
you are not keeping it,
but sitting in judgment on it.
~ James 4

WFRL: Nobody's Fault But Mine

2009-12-13T11:50:00.003-05:00

...And when you and your children
return to the LORD your GOD
and obey him with all your heart
and with all your soul
according to everything I command you today,
then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes
and have compassion on you
and gather you again
from all the nations where he scattered you.
~ Deuteronomy 30

WFRL: Peek-A-Boo!

2009-12-13T05:25:00.001-05:00

For everything in the world—
the cravings of sinful man,
the lust of his eyes
and the boasting of what he has, and does—
comes not from the Father
but from the world.
~ 1 John 2

WFRL: City Of Delusion

2009-12-12T06:42:00.001-05:00

Stay away from me
Build a fortress
And shield your beliefs
Touch the divine
As we fall in line

Can I believe
When I don't trust
All your theories
Turn to dust
I choose to hide
From the all seeing eye

Destroy this City of Delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons
With your blood

You'll not rest
Settle for less
Until you guzzle
And squander what's left
Do not deny
That you live and let die

Destroy this City of Delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons
With your blood

Destroy this City of Delusion
Break these walls down
I will avenge
Justify my reasons
With your blood

Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw

and as dry grass sinks down in the flames,
so their roots will decay
and their flowers blow away like dust;
for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty
and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
~ Isaiah 5

WFRL: So Why Don't You Kill Me?

2009-12-11T21:34:00.001-05:00

Has not Moses given you the law?
Yet not one of you keeps the law.
Why are you trying to kill me?
~ John 7

WFRL: Badge

2009-12-11T09:51:00.000-05:00

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses,
all this disaster has come upon us,
yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our GOD
by turning from our sins
and giving attention to your truth.
~ Daniel 9

WFRL: Seasons Of Wither

2009-12-11T06:26:00.000-05:00

Loose hearted lady sleepy was she
Love for the devil brought her to me
Seeds of a thousand drawn to her sin
Seasons of Wither old in the end

Ooh woe is me I feel so badly for you
Ooh woe is me I feel so sadly for you
In time bound to lose your mind
Live on borrowed time
Take the wind right out of your sail

Fireflies dance in the heat of
Hound dogs that bay at the moon
My ship leaves in the midnight
Can't say I'll be back too soon

She awakens far far away
Heat of my candle show me the way
Seeds of a thousand drawn to her sin
Seasons of Wither old in the end

Ooh woe is me I feel so badly for you
Ooh woe is me I feel so sadly for you
In time bound to lose your mind
Live on borrowed time
Take the wind right out of your sail

Though my father and mother forsake me,
the LORD will receive me.
~ Psalm 27

Mikael and the Klezmatics
send you some Hanukkah Babbaganda Greetings....REPENT!

WFRL: Mad World

2009-12-10T11:15:00.000-05:00

They are from the world
and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world,
and the world listens to them.
~ 1 John 4

WFRL: Bend Down The Branches

2009-12-09T23:39:00.004-05:00

If the root is holy,
so are the branches.
~ Romans 11

WFRL: Cross Eyed Repenticide

2009-12-09T11:50:00.003-05:00

If the people of the community close their eyes
when that man gives one of his children to Molech
and they fail to put him to death,
I will set my face against that man -
and his family -
and I will cut off from their people
both him
and all who follow him
in whoring themselves to Molech.
~ Leviticus 3

WFRL: All I See Is You...

2009-12-09T08:50:00.006-05:00

But days have come and gone
Since you were here
Nights are twice as long
Without you near
Pictures on my mind
Stand out so clear
No matter where I am
Or what I do
My darling
All I see is you...

You're there in every dream
I ever dream
There at every place
I've ever been
Everyday I find
You're in my heart
And on my mind
I close my eyes
But I'm not blind
I see you still
And when I throw my arms out wide
I find that you're not by my side
But one thing is for sure
Until I do
All I see is you

Everyday I find
You're in my heart
And on my mind
I close my eyes
But I'm not blind
I see you still, oh
I won't live again
'Til I'm with you...

For you were like sheep going astray,
but now you have returned
to The Shepherd
and The Overseer of your souls.
~ 1 Peter 2

WFRL: Journey To The Center Of the Mind

2009-12-08T16:30:00.000-05:00

GOD is not a man,
that he should lie, nor a son of man,
that he should change his mind.
Does he speak and then not act?
Does he promise and not fulfill?
~ Numbers 23

WFRL: Pictures Of Home

2009-12-08T08:22:00.006-05:00

Do not be afraid
of those who kill the body...
but cannot kill the soul.
Rather, be afraid of The One
who can destroy both your soul and your body in hell.
~ Matthew 10

WFRL: Are You Gonna Be There? (At The Love-In)

2009-12-08T05:06:00.000-05:00

If you love me, you will obey what I command.
~ John 14

WFRL: Earth Died Screaming

2009-12-07T10:12:00.006-05:00

Happy Birthday to Tom Waits, Mikael & Vito Corleone

Rudy's on the midway
And Jacob's in the hole
The monkey's on the ladder
The devil shovels coal
With crows as big as airplanes
The lion has three heads
And someone will eat the skin that he sheds
And the earth died screaming
The earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you
Well hell doesn't want you
And heaven is full
Bring me some water
Put it in this skull
I walk between the raindrops
Wait in Bug House Square
And the army ants
They leave nothin' but the bones
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you
There was thunder
There was lightning
Then the stars went out
And the moon fell from the sky
It rained mackerel
It rained trout
And the great day of wrath has come
And here's mud in your big red eye
The poker's in the fire
And the locusts take the sky
And the earth died screaming
While I lay dreaming of you

Now, what I am commanding you today
is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask,
"Who will ascend into heaven to get it
and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"
Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask,
"Who will cross the sea to get it
and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?"

No, the word is very near you;
it is in your mouth
and in your heart
so you may obey it.

See, I set before you today
life and prosperity,
death and destruction.
For I command you today
to love the LORD your God,
to walk in his ways,
and to keep his commands, decrees and laws;
then you will live and increase,
and the LORD your God
will bless you in the land
you are entering to possess.

~ Deuteronomy 30

WFRL: Hell To Pay

2009-12-06T05:32:00.005-05:00

He who has an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.
He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.
~ Revelation 2

WFRL: Anywhere Out Of The World

2009-12-05T18:14:00.000-05:00

All the inhabitants of the earth
will worship the beast...
All whose names have not been written
in the book of life belonging to the Lamb
that was slain from the creation of this world.
~ Revelation 13

WFRL: What A Wonderful World

2009-12-05T08:49:00.007-05:00

We know that we are children of God,
and that the whole world
is under the control of the evil one.
~ 1 John 5

WFRL: Eyeball Kid

2009-12-05T06:47:00.000-05:00

Do you have eyes of flesh?
Do you see as a mortal sees?
~ Job 10

WFRL: Jesus Hits Like The Atom Bomb

2009-12-04T10:54:00.006-05:00

Our God comes
and will not be silent;
a fire devours before him,
and all around him a tempest rages.
~ Psalm 50