I wanted to read something fresh about divinity after The Handmaid and the Carpenter, so I went back to a little book of poems by Cynthia Rylant called God Went to Beauty School. Here is my favorite of them:
God Bought a Couch
He ordered it from Potttery Barn
and He had a little trouble
because His credit card
billing address didn’t match
the delivery address.
They weren’t totally convinced
He was God.
Because for one thing
He got his credit card
bills in Hell
(just His quirky
sense of humor)
and he wanted the
couch shipped to Heaven
(the old one was too hard),
but they didn’t buy it
until He told them
how He made the first
rhinoceros.
He had it all down,
the DNA, the chromosomes,
and especially the Holy Spirit.
Nobody is as convincing
about the Holy Spirit
as God.
They asked Him did
He want corduroy or leather.
He said, “What do
you think?”
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A little too creationist for me! He gets his bills in hell? My bills come from hell. I hope he didn't choose rhinoceros hide for his couch and what's he doing sitting down on the job anyway? Sorry, feeling caustic this morning.
Ha! Amen!
i like this poem much better than the little book. i was disappointed in it just reading the post. sounds like mostly a severely traditional rendition of something that, as closely as they can retrace, did not happen w/ the route, stable, etc. and i think having the 6 children in there only weakens the story. hard to believe in a virgin conception w/ no virgin!
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