Poet's
Corner
By Ronald Crowe
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FINALLY

I dreamt it last night: The Second Coming.

Nothing like the advertisement.

The ground didn't shake, the earth didn't

stop in its orbit, rivers did not run

backwards, nor did a single bush burn.

 

But this time everyone on earth heard clearly,

not one left out, not even lost tribes in Borneo

or hermits in the  Himalayas. And all reasonable

people agreed that IT said with electric clarity:

 

We should treat others as we would like to be

treated, take care of our earth, beware of organized

superstition masquerading as truth, and most of all,

and this was highlighted with lightning and underscored

with thunder:

 

USE YOUR BRAINS THIS TIME!

CRITICAL THINKING IN ALL

AREAS--ESPECIALLY RELIGION--

IS NOT A SIN; IT IS A REQUIREMENT.

 

That was all. But enough. We wrote it down

while the words still roared in our heads.

 

And then I awoke.

 

 

 

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