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“I Will Mock When Your
Calamity Cometh”
“…but ye have set at nought my counsel, and would
hear none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your
calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh…”
—Proverbs 1
If you butcher a womb, you’d shoot up a school,
Your feet in the tomb, two fingers to fool,
Two fingers to trick you—each in one ear,
A gun on your shelf, your death drawing near.
Sophia ignored, God’s Wisdom will mock,
And the shootings of masses will come as no shock.
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Alec Ream is a writer living in Virginia. His poetic work and creative fiction have been widely published. A member of the Demosthenian Literary Society at UGA, he wrote on Lookout Mountain, and continued to write, lecture and work for Delta Kappa Epsilon HQ. He was first published reading to the pledge class of Michigan DKE, in Ann Arbor in 2008. Recently, his poem Green Fire was read at the Washington Literary Society & Debating Union at UVA.
My takeaway from this is that you reap what you sow. Am I correct in that assumption? I don’t understand the reference to “Sophia” and welcome an explanation. Thanks.
Thanks for the reply…you are correct, Cheryl. “Sophia” is the female personification of God’s Wisdom when His warnings have been repeatedly ignored.
In appreciation, for an exquisitely powerful and haunting work!
Best wishes,
Patricia Allred
Thanks, Patricia, for saying so. Best wishes to you and yours also. DKE housed and fed me for 8 years during the Great Recession, enabling me to be printed in Britain 2013, 3 times.
As the House Dad at LSU for 5+ years, I currently miss the adrenalin from seeing the 6 o’clock news van on the sidewalk in front of the house Huey Long built for his son’s fraternity. When they put up the banner (above), I knew that there was an odd profundity to what the banner stated – ie, that when a comic book narrative creates glamour-themed criminals, it follows that 1 person out of 100 would wrongly imitate the fictional actions of those glamour-themed criminals.
P.S. The banner that much outdid the one above was posted the day of the Kent St / LSU game: “Kent St is no stranger to a massacre.” This trended #2 on Yahoo. That one really instigated reflection. How so? Well, if a protest burns the ROTC, then the protest may get fired upon. Fictionalizing one’s own persecution is prominent today – when in fact one has played the clear provocateur.