New Book--New Name

Today I looked through old files and officially have begun getting them together to form a book of monologs.  On the same topic, I am also telling you my nom de plum--Leslie Thomas.

Here is a sample of one of my monologs.  This one is from my first book--monologs taken from the time of Christ.

subito

Shepherds roamed the fields by night

noisily rounding up the herds.

In the city, census time was here.

Thousands of people, millions of words.

Listening to them, one would say

that chaos was the order of the day.

The cacophony of sound

that every moment

grew louder

more urgent

more raucous

more insistent

except

in a stable.

Here the noise is hushed

the air seems charged

the molecular structure changed,

the atoms and ions rearranged.

And why not?

Nothing would ever be the same,

the order and balance of life,

once perfectly in synch--

then skewed in a slithery sillibant slur of sin

now is whole

both out and in.