Clea T. Waite
 
What was Lot's Wife Name?
Two channel video sculpture/poem: salt, projection, and monitor, 1999.

     
What was Lot's Wife's Name?
Regensburger Salzstadels, 1999
 
 
 
What was Lot's Wife's Name?
cut-out poem from a broadcast television sermon, 1985


I. Remember Her Sin

He chose to go to Sodom.

His wife and family probably were urging him.
His wife,
his Wife,
probably...

Remember her sin.

Lot's Wife,
Lot's Wife,
Lot's Wife,
my wife

a woman of the world.
She was the wife,
she had seen,
she was escaping.

Her sin didn't seem to be so great.
Something deeper inside of her...

She was almost saved.
She turned and looked back.
That moment she turned, He
hardened His heart.

His love,
His.

He took. He
took
the wife.

Lot's Wife disbelieved.
She had been warned.
The wrath of God was poured out on Sodom
and Lot's Wife.

Lot's Wife didn't believe,
but he did.

He warned the wife,
the wife,
the wife,
my wife.

She couldn't help it,
the wife.
Her heart was still.

Remember her sin.
Her sin.
One word, Sin.

Jesus called, He called:
If you're not willing to acknowledge me before men,
Men,
said Jesus.

He was a friend of God.
He was a great Man of God.
He was a great Man of faith.
He said,

Sodom:
abundance of idleness was in Her and in Her Daughters.

Sodom:
neither did She strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy.

Sodom.
Her heart was Sodom.

His only Son,
He is alive,
He is at the right hand of God the Father,
and He's coming back.

He told
He told
He said
He said
He talked to his soul
He said
He said
He sent His son
He saw
He said

He said,
His mercy was giving her another chance.


II. Armageddon


It rained fire and brimstone from heaven
and destroyed them all.
If He'd have had an atomic bomb He would have thrown it
He confessed.

Trusting in our military power,
Armageddon comes next.
There shall no flesh be saved.

He did it,
Armageddon.

He said the violence is going to be more brutal,
more brutal and more violent,
to satisfy.

he did it.

And a man,
that night he died
the way of death.

Armageddon, Armageddon,
Armageddon,
Armageddon.

But the end is death.
The end is death.

III.

Even when you're laughing sometimes,
aren't you sad?

© Clea T. Waite 1985/1999

 


 

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