Poem: The mystery of the first amendment to the Ten Commandments

They didn't know
Whether it should be
The eleventh commandment

The first amendment
To the Ten Commandments
Or the Commandment Codicil

One bloc argued
There were loopholes
To be closed

Another group liked
The round number ten
Why spoil it with twelve or thirteen

One prophet who looked like Jerry Garcia
Said we forgot to tell them enjoy life
Follow the rules but have fun in between

And another camp voted for
Forty more commandments
Just to be sure

A quasi-Buddhist splinter faction
Pushed to add Jesus's words
Love one another

They never settled a thing
With the stone tablets
Missing

The Framer's intentions
Were impossible
To divine

They weren't even sure
Moses had turned the tablets over
To see the other side
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