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insomnium infinitum est

1:
i know if i just lay down in the dark
i will sleep in seconds
but the light is so far away
and who knows if i can still straighten my back?

i know if i let my blankets wash over me
they will draw me out into surfy sleep
like a pebble that is sucked off the beach
and into the brine

but i don't know if my feet
are ready to leave the floorboards yet.

2:
maybe if i just wait a while longer
the sun will show up like a long tardy lover
and the first footfalls of the working set
will crunch briskly past in the snow
huddled up in well coated shoulders
against the thin mean morning light

maybe they'll bleed by the thousands
down the concrete drains of the city
into the core with its towers and cubicles
and blinking florescent pettinesses
and its coffee rotgut
and egg and cheese sandwich gas
and slow slow ticking hours of simmering discontent

clock-watching, paper-stacking, hum-drumming,
pacing, typing, ringing, buzzing, hammering,
drilling, steaming, chattering, grinding,

maybe i'll sleep better through that
...at least until they come to get me too.

I don’t need to tell you the Pope is an idiot, but…

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/created+Bang+pope+says/4069177/story.html

Look at it this way: if the Catholic Church decides to accept the theory of the Big Bang then what they are saying is that they accept a model of the universe that runs on scientific principles.  Now, if the universe runs on scientific principles then it must be governed by laws of physics which, being laws, can not change. 
This means that whatever the laws of physics are at the start of the universe, those laws must continue to be the case throughout the existence of the universe.  Therefore, anything that is contrary to those laws (like walking on water or coming back from the dead, for example) can not be possible.  Any intervention of God, in fact, in the affairs of reality after the Big Bang must be impossible.