This is intended to be read aloud – read quietly to your self and you may miss the point.
I am Lazarus
walking from the car
to the doctors office,
I am Lazarus.
sick, shaking, agitated,
waking up everyday,
I am Lazarus.
call for me at the window!
I’ll let down my holy beard,
read you a turn, a strophe,
carefully with open eyes.
look at my walk!
how I limp, sadly moving,
my feet crash to the ground!
Look at my chest, how it breathes
how my heart beats!
look at my eyes, they see,
emote, tell!
see you listening,
see you reading, see you
who have not died,
who are not blessed to live long.
pain! strife! peace! war!
goddess Aphroditie!
god Ares!
I am Lazarus! I know you!
death,
I’m addressing you.
I have died already,
you have already taken my spirit, soul;
I will not fear you any longer.
life,
I have already gone past you,
crossed to the other shore,
I shall not fear you any longer.
I am Lazarus!
call for me at my door!
there we’ll meet,
lock gaze and I’ll sing! dance!
Laugh! with butterflies in my beard.
hummingbirds at my ears.
– Hoc Scripsi
the platitudes of willful resemblance 