Thanks, Ursula. I wasn't familiar with Orwell's poem, so I googled it up. Witty it is. Thanks for pointing it out.
Mike----- Original Message ----- From: "Ursula Stange" <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 4:40 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: SUNDAY POEM
Charming as always, Mike. Puts me in mind of Orwell's "A happy vicar I might have been"... You know you've done something good when your stuff sends people, looking to prolong the moment, remembering previous pleasures...Happy Sunday to you, Ursula Mike Geary wrote:SERMON I should have been a Monsignor by now, rewarded for my skill in avoiding scandal. A beloved pastor I'd be, kindly and forgiving, understanding of our human foibles, a source of solace absolving those who have sinned again and again and again. "Let me tell you about God," I would start my Sunday sermon, were I the Monsignor I should be: "That raucous shouting in your gonads is the voice of God, calling you to be one with him. One, not in thought, not in prayer, not in anchoritic meditation, No, God wants you in the flesh, God wants your body with all its fluids and its sloughing off and its odors and noises. God wants all of you and he wants you to want him in all his Herness and Hisness and Itness God wants to dance with you, get drunk with you amuse you with his divine humor. Embrace God, become God." That's what I would say, had a woman not turned my head and made me Pope of myself. Mike Geary Memphis------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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