It’s not how many cubits of water you need to put Everest under a flood But why the world was so dirty that it needed such a big bath Trying to find Noah’s ark Instead of trying to rid the world of violence Really is an exercise in missing the point Speaking of missing the point— It’s not did a snake talk? But what the damn thing said! Because even though I’ve never met a talking snake I’ve sure had serpentine thoughts crawl through my head Literalism is a kind of escapism By which you move out of the crosshairs of the probing question But parable and metaphor have a way of knocking us to the
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