Poem: the first amendment to the Ten Commandments

By Jack Brummet

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 missing tablets,

The Framer's intentions
Were impossible

To divine.
They weren't even sure

Moses turned the tablets over
To read the other side.

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