Thinking the best of myself My best thinking Got me here, Before God
A poem is like a dream In that it shows us the truth Without telling it Because, truth be told There’s no telling
By His very nature God can only underpromise Because He always overdelivers Being made in God’s image We would be wise to do likewise
My mid-life crisis is the fear that my tombstone epit… Like chicken, he went with everyth…
We are gathered around our phones Like little campfires And all we ever hear Are scary stories
If God is dead we get eternal recurrence, when things just keep happening ov… and transference, where every authority figure
The three-body problem For example, the motion of the Mo… As disturbed by the Sun Is insoluble As in unpredictable
A rising tide lifts all boats But a rising sea floods all moats
Pacifism is the ultimate weapon For if you can prohibit your enemy From defending himself Then all that’s left Is to love him to death
In granting us free will God took the greatest of risks God also made us in His image God risked it all on us Risking it all on Him
After that instead of talking about the weath… or staring at their phones people stared at anyone who talked
Marriage is the only place I’m neither feature nor bug but both
Negative theology collapsed when it became apparent God was sanguine
I’d always said Que sera, sera expecting the last guffaw Instead it’s a last hurrah before one or the other coups d’et…
There was always an urn on the man… made from terra cotta Little then did I know it was for the remains of the persona non gra…