The Ten Suggestions

When Moses came down from the mountain and cloud
bearing the Ten Commandments in hand
and saw the calf adored by the crowd
and smashed the tablets of God’s command
one of the Hebrews quick-witted and proud
bent and wrote the Ten down in the sand.

—J. A. Gray

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