Rainbow Signs

Pale horse songs of a slow decline
 Sideshow words if the songs don't mind
 G-d gave Noah the rainbow sign
 No more water, is the H-Bomb next time?
 Pale horse vows in a grave I-do-yes-definitely reply
 Smile for the camera at a 'church' nearby
 Threw a mute curse at the Boise sky
 For my fucked up Napolean-of-St.-Helena-hairline
 Black horse leaping when the frogs withdrew
 The parable of the plums where the olives grew
 Clouded rearrangement of sounds we knew:
 An Idaho sunset for my own private Waterloo
 Pale horse songs of a slow decline
 Side show words if our moms don't mind:
 Cloud gave no one a rainbow sign--
 Six-point starred ink flag next time?
 שְׁמַע יִשְׂרָאֵל ה' אֱלֹהֵינוּ ה' אֶחָד قل هو الله احد الله الصمد
 With imperial crowns we were 'sent,'
 Riding out conquest-bent
 Daylight is breaking
 Weilding the sanctified sword
 For the army of the Scarecrow Lord
 Daylight is breaking
 Balancing scales at our feet
 Measuring out two pounds of barley, six pounds of buckwheat
 Beasts of the Battersea Shield
 At the opening of the fourth seal
 The sky, I'd been told
 Would roll up like a scroll
 As the mountains and islands moved from their place
 And the sun would turn black
 As a dead raven's back
 But there'd be nowhere hide
 From the Judge's face
 After which message-less birds take flight without cause
 To the silence they've heard in the absence of laws
 Or imperial crowns: Unsent, unsigned--
 The other night I dreamt I was finally out of college
 In my own pair of sandals, I had turned into my father
 Whistling our tune about the Rio Grande
 Like an anchorite in June I took hold of my own hand
 And started on the Abrahamic joke we knew
 About apostrophes and pronouns and you-remember-who
 "But let's keep that silly punchline between me and you
 Little Haroon
 And the man in the moon."