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Grex Enigma Item 198: Hymn to a Sad God
Entered by janc on Sun Jun 19 00:07:36 UTC 1994:

Hymn to a Sad God

    Oh Lord, in folly born.
    Child of holly.
    Child of thorn.

  Guide us down the rightous track;
  Lose yourself on your way back.

    Oh Lord, in folly born.
    Child of holly.
    Child of thorn.

  Warm us through the winter, please;
  You yourself can damn well freeze.

    Oh Lord, in folly born.
    Child of holly.
    Child of thorn.

  Sate our hunger, quench our thirst;
  Feed yourself, but feed us first.

    Oh Lord, in folly born.
    Child of holly.
    Child of thorn.


(I wrote this about five years ago, and was immediately struck by the
 worst chain of bad luck in my life.  I've never been able to work up
 the nerve to complete it.  I apologize for not warning you before you
 read it.)

8 responses total.

#1 of 8 by morandir on Sun Jun 19 04:19:31 1994:

^D ^D ^D ^D ^D help! ^D ^D ^D ^D ^D Oh please God! ^D ^D ^D?Interrupt!
^D ^D ^D Respond or pass?  ^D ^D ^D ^D ^D ^D KILL THE BRUTES!!! ^D
^D ^D ^D ^D ^D ^D ^D ^D ^D Ok to abandon text? od,...n ^D ^D ^D ^D
^D ERRRGGGGGGG!!!!!

#2 of 8 by rcurl on Sun Jun 19 07:20:27 1994:

Look what it did to morandir!

#3 of 8 by carl on Sun Jun 19 13:12:21 1994:

Even sad Gods like having hymns.

#4 of 8 by kami on Sun Jun 19 18:11:21 1994:

my word, janc, were you in a cynical mood?  To what god in particular were you
referring?  Poor disavowed god.

#5 of 8 by remmers on Sun Jun 19 18:34:14 1994:

Must've been the Rodney Dangerfield god.  "I don't get no respect."

#6 of 8 by janc on Sun Jun 19 22:09:47 1994:

Whichever god it was, he took offense.

#7 of 8 by kami on Mon Jun 20 18:29:57 1994:

Did he put it back (the fence I mean) when asked politely?

#8 of 8 by gerund on Wed Jun 22 10:13:33 1994:

How ultimately totally profoundly explicitly extremely insane.

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