Introibo ad altare Dei

Introibo ad altare Dei
I’d answer like a Do-wop
Backup singer dancing behind the lead
Ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meum
Those late-Latin hit tunes
Tantum ergo and O Solutaris, hostia
Competed with Richie Valens
Donna was her name
Skeeter Davis sang
To know, know, know him
Is to love, love, love him
Doris Day sang
Que sera, sera
The King sang
Ah well-a bless my soul what’s wrong with me
I’m itchin’ like a man on a fuzzy tree
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
A world of girls with twirling skirts,
bobby sox and budding blouses,
Buddy, Skeeter and Elvis

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This found poem was created from a passage off David Citino’s “'I Shall Not Want': The Twenty-third Psalm Comes to Cleveland, Ohio” which is a chapter in his book “Paperwork”

This poem will be featured in my upcoming poetry book titled "Lost in Cyberspace and other found poems" You can read the book - as I write it! - at http://lostincyberspacepoems.blogspot.com

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