The Epistemology of Family According to God’s Ways

 

Adam and Eve first.

Next, Mary/Joseph raise Christ.

Then, parents bear you.

Gary Edward Geraci

Polyester Pants

 

Delightful to wear polyester pants again,

Bucking all fashion trends and cruel class distinction.

The gift from a loved one renouncing the days when

Monogrammed sleeve cuffs, cufflinks, silk ties and ball pen

Adorned fine threaded fabrics of custom tinction.

Delightful to wear polyester pants again,

Baptized, clothed anew in the garments of great ken,

Kingly for the kingdom where love is the mission.

The gift from a loved one renouncing the days when

Slavery to sin ruled the new day and heathen

Pursuits parsed the day’s minutes into fad fiction,

Delightful to wear polyester pants again.

Meditate to the day and plight of those first cen-

Tury martyrs: fierce Flavians; Benediction

The gift from a Loved One renouncing the days when

Captivity, damnation the plight of all men,

Condemned them to a death like final extinction.

Delightful to wear polyester pants again,

The gift from a loved one renouncing the days when…

Gary Edward Geraci

Carnal Contradictions

A delicious meal!

Eating well so unhealthy?

So is aging well.

Whether one puts the word “well”

After or not matters not.

Gary Edward Geraci

Brother Body

 

Brother body we’ve now gone our separate way,

Like angels we are not for they are pure spirit,

Broken I’ll be until we reunite some day.

What used to inform my soul lies to pass away,

We fought hard, our battles big and never pyrrhic.

Brother body we’ve now gone our separate way.

The great judgement I have passed without guilt or sway

And time for purgation will seem but a minute.

Broken I’ll be until we reunite some day.

Can I explain? I persist to be while decay

Or fire, I don’t know which, has reduced what’s finite?

Brother body we’ve now gone our separate way.

A wide realm free of depth, length, height, or pain, I’d play

With the joy of one who has life without limit.

Broken I’ll be until we reunite some day.

Since man is flesh and the senses instruct; a stray

Soul I am, my risen body to inherit.

Brother body we’ve now gone our separate way,

Broken I’ll be until we reunite some day.

Gary Edward Geraci

Without the Vow

 

many young people today behave like married couples but without the permanency of the Vow, of the ‘death do us part’. many young people then wonder why it is so painful when one is left for another, when one is left for good by the other. many young people go through divorce after divorce after divorce: “oh but the next one will be better” their friends tell them. except nothing changes without the Vow. one more divorce is simply one more divorce too many. 

Gary Edward Geraci

Aquinas for Dinner

 

Aquinas to wine us, dine us

Over hot pasta and pesto

And sauces made ex nihilo.

Aquinas to wine us, dine us

Over hot pasta and pesto.

We’ll speak of high flying saucers;

Little green men with rocket launchers;

Over hot pasta and pesto.

We’ll speak of high flying saucers

As tracked by modern militias.

They don’t seem to be so vicious.

We’ll speak of high flying saucers

As tracked by modern militias:

Real people of self-invention,

Dulled by self-imposed prison.

As tracked by modern militias,

Real people of self-invention,

Doubt objective moral values

And miss the beauty birthed in truths.

Real people of self-invention

Doubt objective moral values

Based on feelings and not thought

And so a fine thinker we sought.

Doubt objective moral values?

Aquinas to wine us, dine us

Over hot pasta and pesto

And sauces made ex nihilo.

Aquinas to wine us, dine us!

Gary Edward Geraci