MagpieTales #306: Having a Bad Day

"You see, Dear?

Everyone gets blue from time to time.

Even Jesus didn't escape those moments

Of loathing himself."

"His hair? He's having a bad hair day for sure

Mary said she'd give him a trim, but this?

It's such a mess, all hithery-dithery

And the points she left look like horns.

Horns, on Jesus of all people!"

            Christ in the Wilderness by Stanley Spencer

"I know he used to be very skinny.

This must have been his famous fat period.

He'd been talking, talking talking

And everyone wanted to feed him. 

He'd say..that's enough!

Then right before his eyes

One loaf and one fish became forty!

In the barest of blinks.

Or so they say....

"About the wilderness part? 

One man's meat is another man's poison....

Or does my analogy confuse you even more?

You see the billowing clouds behind Jesus?

Clearly, that's heaven and Jesus is hanging onto

the earth with everything he's got."

"This must be the very day, the very moment

when Jesus found out

what was lying ahead for him."

"What was that, you ask? Was it awful?

Yes, my darling...it was awful.

Or so they say......

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