Commentary on the "Our Father"

Our Father, Who art in heaven.

Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done.
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread,
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
Amen.

The Embarrassment of Two Identities

Around 30 AD, in Palestine, a guy woke up to the fact that he was what had been referred to as “God.”  He then saw that as god, all he could do was sacrifice himself for others, to the point of his own nonexistence.  And then he saw that death really didn’t matter in the face of all this.  So those who listened to him thought he didn’t die (though their accounts varied wildly and those who put together the record of it slyly knew that.)

Recent Poetry, November 2019

St. Seraphim and the Bear

The bear looked in on Seraphim,

“Unusual” he’d say of him.

When Seraphim woke up at last,

The bear, he chose to eat him fast.

Because when Seraphim awoke,

He was like any other bloke.