Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Loud Prayer

I think I should probably use this blog a little more to put 'out there' various cool stuff I find and/or think others would benefit from checking out. And thus it starts:

I'm not necessarily one for poetry or prayer myself, being both ignorant of poetry and non-religious. However, I've always enjoyed the mock Lord's Prayer from The Last Waltz and thanks to a random internet trail that started from reading a tweet by popular madman Charlie Sheen I starting reading about the poet in question, the very interesting Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who used to hang out with all the Beat poets back in 'the day'.

Anyway, his delivery on the Last Waltz of the poem, Loud Prayer (or possibly Last Prayer, online sources seem to vary) is just outstanding, and well worth a watch. I've copied the words below the video.





Loud Prayer

Our father whose art's in heaven
hollow be thy name
unless things change
Thy wigdom come and gone
thy will will be undone
on earth as it isn't heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
at least three times a day
and forgive us our trespasses
as we would forgive those lovelies
whom we wish would trespass against us
And lead us not into temptation
too often on weekdays
but deliver us from evil
whose presence remains unexplained
in thy kingdom of power and glory
oh man

(thanks to http://syntaxofthings.typepad.com)