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This terse commentary makes my head spin... I love it! Laden with biblical allusion, but in a very fresh way. Perhaps the most captivating line, is it too late for a Governor's reprieve? At first, I passed by it literally, but upon reflection, I think it is a dying man's cry out to God. Just as with a real governor's pardon, the gallows are allayed, but death is only temporarily put off. It is at the point of such lows that saints are made, as in the case of Martin Luther. Referencing Jesus as merely the prodigal, is so subtle and smart. Just as is near-cadaver for the man dying of old age like a slow burning candle. It is shocking that you proclaim salvation needs a resume. At first, seeming blasphemous (at least in terms of calvinism, that the grace of the Holy Spirit is not irresistible): it is in fact a novel way of suggesting our own vying for our souls. We crave some tangible assurance. Some indulgence on a slip of paper that says indeed, we are saved.