Aidan Chafe

Swiss Army Saviour

God is who you turn to in a storm.

                    Or when you can’t pay the rent.

      Or if your football team is losing the Super Bowl.

             Even if He is high staring at supernovas.

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Read his biography. Not a people person.

             Evicted His first tenants

                    for picking apples in the backyard.

             Drowned a lot of haters in His bathtub.

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                    Once I thought I found God

             in a jar of glue, but it just didn’t stick.

The genius of thoughts and prayers

                    is they don’t cost you anything.

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Bored? Trade in God for a dog. You can bark,

                    I rescued him, but really he rescued me.

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