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Bethl'em Born

from Seduction by The Sedatives

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Bethl’em Born

Baby Jesu, Bethl’em born
breathes breath of cow with crumpled horn
and broken donkey ridden down
by Joseph’s cargo town to town
of pregnant virgin’s troubled frown
on furrowed fields of dusty morn.

Baby Jesu, Bethl’em born
lies in trough of straw and corn
still damp with spit from cattle’s tongue
of fire; fierce; denouncing wrong
in temple filled with whitewashed throng
of magi marching from the dawn.

Baby Jesu, Bethl’em born
seeks out friends in lost and lorn
in ass and dreamer, ox and whore,
taxman, retard, fisher, bore
carried safe from sea to shore
the soul that aches, the mind that’s worn.

Baby Jesu, Bethl’em born
in swaddling linen freshly torn
like fragrant grave-laid winding sheet:
clothes of death with life replete.
Watch that bundle wail and greet
as mother Mary quells a yawn.

Baby Jesu, Bethl’em born
surveys the upright freshly sawn
and cross-beam under new-built roof
the inn’s safe stable, strong and proof
where infant hands grasp out to truth,
to leaking nipple, crown of thorn.

GLORY Jesu, Naz’reth’s son
GLORY GLORY teenage mum
GLORY that we all are able
to seek solace in this fine-spun fable
break bread with friends at every table
GLORY humble
GLORY loser
god bless us, ev’ry one.

© David Banks 2010

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from Seduction, released December 24, 2015
Read by Dave Banks.
Mastered at Philosopher's Barn, Norfolk
Poem © David Banks 2010

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The Sedatives Chesterfield, UK

The Sedatives are Bjørn Frengstad and Dave Banks.

They first sung together as members of the mythical "Groundwater Boys" in Trondheim, Norway, and continued to write and play following Dave's return to Chesterfield, UK, in 1998.

They have toured their music throughout western Siberia and selected pubs in the eastern Peak District of Derbyshire. ... more

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