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Religion Experience

Mark Twain used to say quote Hell is an eternity of church unquote (but) what about sermons lasting a whole hour that are sorta interesting? Some priests woulda been Philosopher Kings if the time had been right as well as the place but since the T.V. has been running for all these years everybody is smart-ass now. Sartre once said and I quote Hell is other people unquote but then the merely evil are not as interesting as are the hellish for as the hellish admit they are smart-ass too. But the good pastor quoted himself, saying --There is no hell-- which meant only that he didn't believe in it or even know about it least of all the ones  that are available nowadays unquote again.

Copyright © April 2001 John R. Birkbeck

Additional Notes:
from Longitudes, selected poems by John Birkbeck, 1999


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