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This is from a collection of poems by the great sufi master, Hafiz--the sufi sect is the one that has the whirling dervishes, which are fairly familiar to a lot of folks--who lived in Persia in the early 1300s.
He has an interesting view of God and the world. I like to think about what he'd have to say to the Christian Right of today.
The Tiny Gods
Some gods say, the tiny ones,
"I am not here in the vibrant moist lips
that need to beach themselves upon
the golden shores of a
naked body."
Some gods say, "I am not
the scarred yearning in the unrequited soul;
I am not the blushing cheek
of every star and
planet--"
"I am not the applauding Chef
of those precious secretions that can distill
the whole mind into a perfect wincing jewel, if only
for a moment;
Nor do I reside in every pile of sweet, warm dung
born of the earth's
Gratuity."
Some gods say, the ones we need to hang,
"Your mouth is not designed to know His,
love was not born to consume
the luminous
realms."
Dear ones,
Beware the tiny gods frightened men
Create
To bring anesthetic relief
To their sad
Days.
"I promise not to try not to fuck with your mind/ I promise not to mind if you go your way and i go mine/promise not to lie if i'm looking you right in your eye/promise not to try not to let you down."
--Eve6
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Beautiful! Who said:
"God created Man; whereupon, Man returned the favor." ?
"Remember what the Dormouse said:
"Feed your head; feed your head."
--Jefferson Airplane - WHITE RABBIT
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Why, I said that!
No no i'm just kidding... it's a joke. 
awesome poem aj
rodney
"more tongue and groove than a hardwood floor"
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another apt comment (in my humble opinion) on the vagaries of the Christian Right in the US from Hafiz:
The Diamond Takes Shape
some parrots
have become so skilled with
the human voice
they could give brilliant discourse
about freedom and God
and the unsighted man nearby might
even begin to applaud with
the thought:
I have just heard jewels fall from a
great saint's mouth,
though my master used to say,
"The diamond takes shape slowly
with integrity's great force,
and from
the profound courage to never relinquish love."
some parrots have become so skilled
with words,
the blind turn over their gold
and lives to caged
feathers.
"I promise not to try not to fuck with your mind/ I promise not to mind if you go your way and i go mine/promise not to lie if i'm looking you right in your eye/promise not to try not to let you down."
--Eve6
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