Beautiful Boy

Sean Taro Ono Lennon has never sung in a church before.
Though you try hard,
so very very hard to resist,
you can't help but make a remark
about "how much he sounds like his dad".
Sean was only 5 when Mark David Chapman
dropped into a combat stance on 72nd Street
and fired 4 hollow-pointed bullets
from a Charter Arms revolver
before blaming it all on J. D. Salinger.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the day
at the Indica gallery
when his parents first met;
when John climbed that stepladder
and picked up that magnifying glass
and spied that single magical word written on the ceiling.
His mum, Sean tells us, is in the audience tonight.
Apparently, the poet Wiliam Blake
was baptized in the font over in the corner.