I Met a Mormon Today

[kakareen]

I met a mormon today.
I quickly sent him on his way.
Too late, I realized,
Once he had surpassed the reach of my eyes,
That I had not said what I needed to say.

Once, I had loved my religion.
It's easy to do, when we are children.
And we understand not ourselves or the world.
Its mysteries and inconsistancies
Have not yet unfurled
But when they do, then we

Comments

[cepter_doom]

Well said.

[kakareen]

Really? I wasn't sure of my coherency, but I had to express myself...

...we all have the "I should have said..." moments. I guess one of the benefits have a touch of writing competence allows one to get it out of one's system.

[cepter_doom]

Yeah, really. :) I've often wondered if that isn't a major part of being a good writer - i.e., having issues to work out and then giving them voice.

[captaingoatyak]

i sometimes have an easier time sitting down and writing if i have recently been severely pissed off or depressed about something. i think i can see why a lot of the 'artistic'/writer sorts have been alcoholics. kind of fuels the muse.

[kakareen]

I think it is required that one be a bit of a neurotic...at least for fiction, poetry, and opinion pieces.

[captaingoatyak]

eh, something to do with chemical imbalances... a certain level of depravity seems to help.

[kakareen]

And that I have, my friend, that I have. Perks of being a looney.

[cepter_doom]

I doubt that you're "looney" on any reasonable definition of that term. But the good Captain might well be on to something about imbalances (and the correction thereof by artistic expression?).

[captaingoatyak]

i'm not sure you're a loony, any more than the rest of us anyway. certainly not as loony as your mormon, or any god-fearing prat that would take the time and bother in their life to take your time and bother your life.

i wouldn't call it a correction so much as a by-product. sometimes it helps to spout off in some way, just as a means to occupy the brain and get it out of a particular rut of misery or anger. but it inevitably returns.

[cepter_doom]

Y'know, the "any more than the rest of us" qualification might not make a person feel any better. ;)

[captaingoatyak]

but it won't make a person feel any worse... we all know we're better than mormons. and right now, that's what counts. i believe i would want one of "them" to consider me a lunatic.

[cepter_doom]

Now, now...you're only saying that because you haven't accepted the light of Christ™ into your life. ;)

[captaingoatyak]

TEH CHRISTS HAX0RZ!!! YOU"RE S0UL!!! FROM TEH STATANZ!!! PRAYS BE 2 BABEE JEEZUS!!!

the light of christ. that really is a ridiculous phrase isn't it. that light, is, say... a black light. this is not useful when the sun is out, and i see it overhead...

[cepter_doom]

Wonder if Jesus has infravision...

[captaingoatyak]

nah, but i think the holy ghost does. jesus probably sees the universe in binary, like in the matrix... but he's so good at it, he just sees blonde, brunette, red head...

[cepter_doom]

Aww, he doesn't see cup size? That sucks.