Will D THE PROPEHT
2007-05-11 - 10:54 p.m.

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WILL D THE PROPHET

Will D.

Will had a mean IQ of sixty,

borderline retarded,

but shrewd when he had to be,

like waking from a sleep walk of life,

he understood more than he let on,

but never the key ingredients of success,

never the restraint of excess,

the delay of gratifaction,

the reasoning needed to function

in society.

Will,

with his beady eyes,

close together tight,

saw Jesus one night,

to the consternation of the night watch,

who was unable to coax him back to sleep.

Will was terrified of Jesus,

supposedly the Christ came with a personal message for Will,

to change his ways,

and it was a few days,

before Will continued his moronic bleat

whenever he entered a building,

awhile before his chipper,

na'er do well demeanor returned,

which signaled a lesson lost,

hallucinatory words wasted in the wind.


If Jesus couldn't get through to the kid,

what was I going to do?

Maybe Will was a prophet,

a herald of the Word,

an idiot-savant,

who had forgotten his name.

Most likely he was just a criminal idiot,

because he's back in jail,

prison this time,

on a long hitch for rape and burglary.