manna

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manna

::

the greatest, most
original sin was
the less committed by
the gullible Eve, or
the easily persuadable
Adam, the more by god
                                  —barbsdad
::

if I’ve got the story
approximately
straight, it seems (to me)

that an egocentric god
created god created god,
and so forth ad infinitum,

in its/his/
her own image;

until,

after
becoming
somehow

(though not at all
surprisingly)

bored with
such
a constant
cloning
repetition

of

self-entities, it/he/she
chanced on a jury-rigged design

for
the humans of this world
in
particular,

those questionably
rational animals.

and

being
at least
somewhat

mature by that time
of its/his/her own evolvement
of perspective, outlook,

and

general demeanor, 
it/he/she—god, that is—
followed through

(to its/his/her
ultimate chagrin)

with
a
view

to
recycle those
singularly peculiar
mammalian primates

on down through
subsequent eons.

but …

so then, to dock a long
tale,  that same god concluded—

and
rightly
so—

after
witnessing for a time
the what could have been
naturally foreseen

(indeed
by
a more competent
god)

outcomes

of its/his/
her works

(those
very same outcomes
that came about
apparently as the result

of
a multitude
of
unintended
consequences)

that an error of
monumental — er, godly —
dimension had begun
it all.

is
it any wonder, then, that
that same god grew surly—

even
ticked off—

and
distant,
and
frankly
tired of
the whole

lot
of
it?

and
so it/
he/she

nudged its/his/her
usual set-in-stone mindset
undeniably—

and
not without
a related
resentment—

into
a state
of

self-protective,
overarching denial
about

its/
his/
her

so
demonstrated
omniscient
capacity

for error
that started
the whole

damned
unsavory
mess

in the first
place;

and

throwing up its/his/
her hands in disgust,

it/he/she resolved
at long last to leave humans
alone to stew in

their homemade

toxic
juices.

which is probably
right where they feel most
at home.

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