one thing

by horace p sternwall

adam just wanted to live his life eve wanted what was rightfully hers cain was an angry man abel wanted to be free pharoah’s daughter sat beside the river moses was a beautiful child joshua fought the battle of jericho mathusaleh had a long white beard gilgamesh went for a walk enkidu lived in the forest jonah met a whale noah built an ark goliath was big david was small samson was strong delilah was a spy buddha sat under a tree confucius talked a lot plato had an ugly mug alexander conquered the world cleopatra had a big nose caesar didn’t have any friends john the baptist lived in a cave salome danced the night away hannibal crossed the alps spartacus freed the slaves nero fed christians to the lions john the revelator wrote it all down charlemagne baptized the pagans joan of arc was burned at the stake good king richard went on crusade bad king john stayed behind leif erikson discovered america but nobody even cared later columbus discovered it again and got all the credit henry viii had a lot of wives shakespeare wrote a lot of plays isaac newton invented gravity galileo made the earth go around everybody does one thing and they are that one thing and that is all they wrote what have you done lately?