New Lease

It was weeks after the buzz, enough time for most

to get back to doing whatever it was they were doing

before he up and walked away from death. It was also

enough time for his sisters to quietly regret the whole

shebang because their brother was not simply back

but different. He didn’t give a flying fig about his old life.

So he gathered his things and wordlessly moved out,

leasing a modest place in Jerusalem but spending most

of his time on the road frequenting taverns and reading

the classics, things he had always dreamed of doing.

Those who knew yesterday’s version didn’t get it; they

couldn’t (or quite possibly even refused to) consider

his tomb was really crampy Bethany and those two

smothering sisters. No, Lazarus was a new creation

by god and he intended to live hard until he died, again.

 

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