complaint department
(customer service?)

and is it punishment
and it could
be
at least I have to think so
for
all the wrong
the sins
the sin of stupidity
along
with more direct trespass if
and or
according to a moral
vagary

I don’t know
how we are punished
while
on Earth

we punish ourselves
of course
and endure
or
are extinguished by
the punishment applied
by
others

yet all demons
are not of our making
if at all
though we might make much
of what we have done wrong or
try
to re-manage
re-arranged the into a rationale
itself
tortured by reason

beyond
self-exorcism and the instruction of
pain and suffering
there
are demons
actual that
try the winning us to hell
that
our souls should go denying or
fist-shaking at
any goodness from the Lord

many
reasons
many sources then
for
adversity
among these the reality
of bad things
happening
you
know
Rabbi Kushner

no punishment beyond
reality
that the Calvinists might say
is
invested by depravity
from how we fell
and all
that fell with us

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Harold S Kushner wrote When Bad Things Happen to Good People (whom and which I mean to cite respectfully)

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