Or: Even Ancient Deities Get the Blues
- Will you save me the choicest bits of meat when you sacrifice a calf
- Will you sacrifice your first born
- Will you swear to remain a virgin
- Or to become one
- Do you speak in tongues when you speak in prophecies
- Have you been a tree a bird a woman fleeing on foot
- Have you turned into stone
- If you had to choose a ravishing which would you choose
- A swan a bull a cascade of coins
- Hymen is the god of marriage
- Will you obey us
- Will you call us Father
- Will you call us Daddy
- Will you praise us
- Will you praise us
- Will you praise us
- Will you call it love
~e. alice isak
[Quick note for station identification after the jump. Hope you’ll join me!]
Critical — but only tangentially-related — aside: who on earth ARE these people still swiping right on OkCupid profiles during a fricking global pandemic?? It’s called SOCIAL DISTANCING, PEOPLE! NO I DO NOT WANT TO GRAB A CUPPA AND SWAP COMING-OUT STORIES.
Sheesh.
Just give yourself a bad home haircut and learn to bake sourdough like a normal person, why don’tcha.
Much love to you, my faithful Internet friends! Please drop me a comment on how you’re doing, if you feel so inclined, or share your best-worst photo of your own #QuarantineCut or lastest baking adventure.
May we all come through this well, and may we all come through this together…
Glad to see you. Stay well. And I baked a pound cake last week. A childhood favorite. Simple pleasures.
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Glad to see you too!
Strange times… Funny how soothing childhood foods can be, isn’t it? Just finished having a PB&J for dinner. 🙂
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Ah yes, that is so true. I made a ziti, chicken, and cheese and spaghetti sauce casserole the other day and it was such a nice solid unassuming dish, straightforward comfort food and full of familiar tastes.
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I love this poem so much and shared it on a Dating Site FB group
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Srsly?? Love it!!!
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3 Will you swear to remain a virgin
4 Or to become one
I can. not. love this enough.
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Hee!! Tough out there for a god these days…
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Good poem. Great observation about OKC.
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I feel like anyone who picks this month to send a “nice to meet ya!” note, or whatever, in response to an online dating profile (like someone did to me this weekend!), that should earn ’em an automatic BLOCK from the system.
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I got my bad haircut a couple of months before the pandemic–I looked like an egg with a face drawn on it–so it’s only just now grown in. But hair aside, we’re okay still. Stay well, will you?
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Glad to hear you’re still doing okay! Quarantine makes me a little squirrelly – but not yet so bad I’ve tried ripping down any yellow wallpaper to release a woman trapped in my walls.
May just be a matter of time, of course? 🙂 But okay for now, here too, thanks. Be well.
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Great poem, and I really like that last photo
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😀
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