[NicknamedBob]

"Definitely ready."

You sure about that? It's a little embarrassing, maybe.

Naked!

I just wanted to use the word, to tell the naked truth,
I sure got your attention, though, by being so uncouth.
We’ve come to have an attitude of shame about our nature,
Which seems to be affected somehow by its nomenclature.

There’s little then to stand between the naked and the nude,
Except that one’s an artful pose and in the other, someone’s rude.
The word itself is strange you know, I mean, for goodness sake,
Though people end up naked no one ever seems to nake.

Naked we came into the world, and naked we shall leave it,
Shorn of our possessions and our pride, you can believe it.
To stand before the Lord with only what we’ve done to show,
There is no hiding then from what the Lord will surely know.

An unimpressive specimen, denuded of its glory,
And unlikely to impress with any kind of cover story.
But still forgiving is our Lord of all the things that we may lack,
And we presume to know this much because he hasn’t sent us back.

NicknamedBob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . December 15, 2004

[Silentgypsy]

The “ready” comment referred to Tom’s chicken-something coming out of the oven. If the smoke alarm sounded, it was indeed....

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