"Do You Swear to Tell the Truth, So Help You God?," You Have A Good Heart In There, and XQ (Nathaniel's First Poem) (

"Do You Swear to Tell the Truth, So Help You God?"

  "Hold up your right hand
  Do you swear to tell the truth
  Do you swear to tell the whole truth
  On this stand
  This sanctuary of truth
6  This absolute infallible beacon of truth
  Under the one omniscient, omnipotent God?
  If you lie, immediately you'll die
  Instantaneously your credibility will be lost
  And promptly you'll be tossed
  Into a chasm of loss
12 You better not lie
  In God's name to Hell you'll be damned
  Because the truth soothes
  All it does it soothe"
  Damn God, Goddamn it!
  What if I hate this supposed sleuth?
18 This universal spy, loose
  Equate his lies with truth? God is off
  If God represents infallibility I should die
  Right here, right now on this stand
  Before the judge and the jury, all of man
24 Because if it God's honest truth
  That you want from me
  You'll never get it, honestly

You Have a Good Heart in There 

  Think happy thoughts
  The thoughts that should always be thought
  A good heart should always be sought
  Never succumb to those bad thoughts
  Never believe those days of darkness
6  Begrudge them, disclaim and disavow them
  For all hearts are meant to be good I stress
  Hearts were never meant to endure murkiness
  Or its sin
  Smiles and blooming flowers, laughter
  Experience and its glowing chapters
12 Happiness after the rapture
  All the glee captured
  This is what life is all about
  Forget pain, and suffering, fuck agony
  Fuck agony, no doubt
  Fuck the pangs of affliction, its rout
18 That's not life, it's phony
  Think happy thoughts
  The thoughts that should always be thought
  A good heart should always be sought
  Never succumb to those bad thoughts
  Black is the good heart
24 Because it denied those hearts dark



(Boyle Heights, USA)

XQ (Nathaniel's First Poem) 

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