Tag: God
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God is a funny guy
“Is God a clown who whips away your bowl of soup one moment in order, next moment, to replace it with another bowl of the same soup? Even nature isn’t such a clown as that.”
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‘Wave-being’ theory rebuked
M. Guy de Michêl c/o American Daze/Purple Haze New York, NY 10001. Re your recent post Secrets After Death I must take exception to Professor Wilhelm Michelob’s arrogant and blasphemous “theory” that departed souls travel through the universe on a so-called “as-yet unknown state of wave-being.” I mean, really, what a load of — how…
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Hedging your bets (God-wise)
A somewhat cynical yet possibly hopeful poem by my alter ego, Vilém Více, who lives in Prague, one of my favorite cities in the world.
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39,000 feet
Lost manuscript by vagabond writer found. He was lost. He took planes all over America. He became an expert on airports. He invested such large sums in airline travel he figured he must own a piece of the sky, or rather pieces of the sky — thin, high corridors of illusion between real cities; timeless…
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Total absence of will to go on
As tough as he must have been, being a former member of the French Foreign Legion, Henri Fusil could never pick up his life after the death of his wife.
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Conversation with my cat
THE CAT GOD I tape record this with no regrets My cat has grown weary of my threats In the weeks since the death of my wife To take a shotgun and end my life. Just do it, she says, you’ve got eight more. Are you nuts! I have one, no encore. Are you telling…
Mary Saves the Day 