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[after Acts 11:26c]

In many taverns folks applauded me

because I entertained them---comedy,

funny insults at anyone's expense

(except the Romans; I have common sense).

Some refugees came from Jerusalem,

and I had made a whole routine of them.

They preached a dead man raised to live again:

a Jew named Jesus, whom they called, "the Christ."

They said he is God's Lamb, once sacrificed

to take away all the believers' sin.

I called them "Christians," and my sole intent

was to make mock of them.  I never meant

to give the word by which their group is known.

But they embraced, and claim, it now their own.

Starward

[jlc]