We may yet receive grace.
Nietzsche said that effects precede their cause,
because they’re what made us go looking for a cause in the first place.
Nietzsche said that effects precede their cause,
because they’re what made us go looking for a cause in the first place.
Well, we can practice that
about-face
and say that gravity antecedes a fall
and we received grace
and say that gravity antecedes a fall
and we received grace
as Newton’s apple’s
consequence,
when, drawing short straws,
we went looking for the breath of grace in a hot place.
when, drawing short straws,
we went looking for the breath of grace in a hot place.
OK, let's bow
and submit to God, Who grasps us in His paws
and mercifully administers the coup de gráºce—
and submit to God, Who grasps us in His paws
and mercifully administers the coup de gráºce—
four fangs in the jugular for
the salty taste
of our blood on His tongue—God’s claws
the Cause, we’ll say, that we went looking for in the first place.
We’ll need to keep the
trace—of our blood on His tongue—God’s claws
the Cause, we’ll say, that we went looking for in the first place.
the wound—fresh in the memory of J'accuse:
that, time out of mind, we received grace.
We were all already here before God made us.
