Poem of the Day (POD)

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#158

"O deep down in me
in that which is near
is something beyond
something beyond-near...
the only thing that is
is something else."
--Gunnar Ekelof



Ought, Naught, Juggernaut


God is worse than dead
in the modern head,
he's on a ventilator;
should we pull the plug 
now or later?

All for naught, for God's sake, 
he might as well jump 
in a secular lake,
be a little more hip,
maybe skinny dip.

God is gone, but the 
juggernaut remains,
such naughtiness fills our brains
with Muse aphasia:
God's euthanasia.




*Note: Juggernaut--(sanskrit, jagannatha, f. jagat=world + natha = lord,
protector) 1. Hindu mythology. A title of Krishna, a preeminent avatar of
Vishnu; spec. the image of this god at Puri in Orissa, annually carried in
procession on an enormous cart, under the wheels of which many devotees are
said to have formerly thrown themselves to be crushed 2. fig. an
instittuition, practice, or idea to which a person is blindly devoted or
ruthlessly sacrificed 3. a large, heavy vehicle & Aphasia--loss or impairment
of the power to use or comprehend words.