if in search of inspiration, you can always depend on a religious hang-up.
Except I thought you were all out of post-christian angst, weren't you,
Sally?
Nice to see you found where you'd left them. Funny how they slip to the back
of the drawers.
P-P
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New: Jesus : warning: anti-Christian
>Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:06:50 +0000
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>anti christian
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>you might be offended if you are a strict Christian
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>I haven't forgiven Jesus
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>for frightening me as a child
> making me stoop on bended knee
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>not to the great wide universe
> but to a narrow god,
>routing the bright plurality
> for one cussed despot.
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>Nor for my hair being cut so short,
> my dresses sober black and grey,
>for hanging on a dirty cross
> when I desired to dance and play
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>for taking credit for the flowers
> and lovely things that still crept in
>to the universe he occupied
> with so much thought of sin,
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>for taking in my parents
> whose fault I think it wasn't
>(because I loved them more than him).
>He loves me? No he doesn't -
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>he wants me in his hockey team
> he wants me on his side,
>he wants me to get up and say
> it was for me he died.
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>I never heard such utter rot,
> I never heard such pish.
>The words that spring at once to mind
> are 'bicycle' and 'fish'.
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>I don't want his forgiveness
> and I don't admire his god.
>I'd rather think that everything
> just happened out of mud.
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>And he if ever listened
> to what stared him in the face,
>he'd stop saying he'd forgiven me
> and just get off my case.
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>Sally Evans
Perpetua Pullman
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