{"id":8361,"date":"2013-03-29T04:28:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T09:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=8361"},"modified":"2013-03-29T04:28:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T09:28:06","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-he-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-he-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: HE LIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Padre<\/a><\/p>\n

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

HE LIVES
\nDemons dread this day,
\nThey hate to hear us say
\nYear after year
\nThe phrase they fear:
\n\u00a1Viva Cristo Rey!<\/p>\n

From the archive:<\/em><\/p>\n

GOOD FRIDAY
\nWhen tornadoes come whirling your way,
\nYou get down on your knees and you pray:
\nYou\u2019re just glad you\u2019re not dead,
\nHave a roof overhead \u2013
\nNothing else seems to matter that day.
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

POSITION STATEMENT
\nWhile walking with the abbot,
\nWhich was his daily habit,
\nA monk who spied
\nHares side by side
\nSaid, \u201cThat\u2019s the east-er rabbit!\u201d
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

HOLY WEEK
\nSo begins the passion play:
\nEvil triumphs for a day,
\nBut Friday\u2019s cross
\nRedeems our loss
\nAnd confirms us in the Way.
\n(2009)<\/p>\n

NATIVITY
\nTell me how can an innocent Child \u2013
\nHoly Infant, so tender and mild \u2013
\nBe the object of scorn
\nFrom the moment He\u2019s born:
\nRejected, resented, reviled?
\n(2005)<\/p>\n

MEA CULPA
\nHow fully prim piety fails
\nAnd scarcely scapegoating avails
\nWhen I add my own ration
\nTo Christ\u2019s frightful passion
\nAnd with my hands help drive in the nails.
\n(2004)<\/p>\n

PASSION
\nCritics say it\u2019s a judgmental story
\nWith scenes that are overly gory,
\nBut that\u2019s what you\u2019re liable
\nTo read in the Bible
\nOf sacrifice leading to glory.
\n(2003)<\/p>\n

P.C. (POST CHRISTIAN)
\nThe other children teased her
\nFor being a faithful feaster:
\nWhen the pagan takes
\nHis seasonal breaks,
\nShe celebrates Christmas and Easter.
\n(2002)<\/p>\n

BASKET CASE
\nMy obesity just isn\u2019t funny
\nAnd I\u2019m suing for bundles of money:
\nWhen a basket of candy
\nIs too full and too handy,
\nWho\u2019s to blame but the old Easter Bunny?
\n(2005)<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s limerick:<\/em><\/p>\n

OAF FOR OFA*
\n\u201cI will post on a popular site
\nThat appeals to the rubes on the right,
\nI\u2019ll pretend to engage them,
\nThen I\u2019ll quickly enrage them,
\nLeaving heat where there might have been light.\u201d<\/p>\n

*Organizing for Action<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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