(real) wrongway satisfaction
empty
how to be filled again
pearls cast
wise as doves
gentle as
serpents
which works the opposite
of the truism
though maybe doves have wisdom
and serpents may
have
wisdom
and things work upside-
down
or in and out of time
the way the faithful claim that
foolishness is wisdom
the backward
take
look another way
from the world into eternity
c l couch
1 Corinthians 1:21
photo by Fredrik Öhlander on Unsplash
Seventh-Inning Stretch
God
Help us
I think God will
I believe
You don’t have to
Not because I’m better
Never that
No
But because belief
Infects at different rates
Like a desirable disease
And some are never touched
Some are cured
Or forestalled
By degrees of nihilism
But it’s fair to understand
Faith as sick
The world doesn’t welcome it
Many take remedies, so to say
For me,
Welcome the infection
Feed the fever
Starve the cold
Once the heart is hosted
All other major organs
(yes those, too)
The wisdom of the world
Is foolish to believers
We are fools
To its wisdom
C L Couch
Mask of a fool dancer; Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl); North America department, Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany (Jacobsen collection, 1881)
By User:FA2010 – Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15334105
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