Tuesday, January 04, 2005

New Year's Resolution: Read More Wendell Berry

A poem by Wendell Berry (he's a liberal red-stater --Berry in '08?), published in The Southern Review, Spring 2001:

Jayber Crow's Silly Song About Jesus

What make of car will Jesus drive
When He comes back again?
What new model will He contrive
To save the world from sin?

Soon may He come again to earth
To set us free at last,
For Satan's car has no reverse
And he is driving fast.

Has daylight been a heavy load
And life a dirty deal?
The Kingdom Car is on the road;
The Savior's at the wheel.

No. Wait. I take that music back.
Forgive my silly song.
We will foresee Him as we are,
And every time be wrong.