251. moses was meant by schedule to bread

moses was meant by schedule to bread
HAVE TURNED NOW TO WINE, and ended unleavened,
and what about frogs, three plagues of them called,
but don’t to the desert show up on the dot

for frogs, for their part, had nile, in the marshes,
QUITE HAPPILY LIVED for millions of darkness —
frogs don’t know time, but tell when it’s night,
and don’t know for moses (his plans for them) either

moses wrote down on the coat he’d had mounted
on three hidebound sticks a canvas to sound the
various screeds — DON’T FAITH PUT IN CREATURES
SMALLER THAN FIVE (OR AT MOST SEVEN FEET)

the cheeseheads for marduck had started to charge an
altar of sorts with half-goats they’d hardened
from clay and some reeds delivered had been
by ACME CLAY GODS, DISTRIBUTORS, INC.

moses thought, so, it’s a fair time to show
people who does talk to god and who don’t —
wrote down commandment 1A SHALT NOT HAVE A
BISCUIT FOR DINNER, AND NO DESERT AFTER

1B (and he added, in case they’d not cracked it)
NO (AFTER ME — AFTER MY GOD) FALSE BADGERS,
burned a quick bush just to shove come to push,
considered a day (a work, i mean, good)

moses, as won’t if a prophet is floated,
a full night of rest, the night read the bone(s),
and what they had said, this business fred
has got to get sorted before we reach jeddah

fred wasn’t one of the marduck clan, but
had SERIOUS PROBLEMS with discipline, rubbed
moses when speaking of new gods (what he’d been
when he went up a mountain) not all that keen

fred came along with the moses allotment
because he’d got kicked out of egypt for plotting
a takeover teamed with a rock and some string,
and pharaoh could not be bothered to bleed him
(cont.)