Friday's Whims of the Time Traveler 100.0: Fall 2010

Dogma
by Belinda Roddie

If there were a God
would you
build Him
a house?

Would you give Him
somewhere
to sleep
on the planks
on the
splinters of a
criss-crossed
criss-crossed
pattern?

Do not
disturb
our guest

Recite your
hymns in your
head

He is dreaming
of a little
cottage where He
drinks tea and people
Pray

The work you see here was originally written in the fall of 2010. It was last edited on May 10th, 2011.

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