The Camp Loony Muse

IN CREATION MYTHS
A COMMON THEME
HAS GODS
INVOLVED IN SIBLING SEX
RAPE
MURDER
TURF WARS
BUTCHERY
STRUGGLES FOR POWER

THE WORLD MADE
BY THEIR CHILDREN'S BODIES
OR PARTS THEREOF

A CREATION STORY
AS CONCEIVED BY MEN

BUT WHEN THE JEWISH SCRIBES
SURROUNDED
BY BABYLONIAN IDOLATRY
DROWNED IN FOREIGN GODS
TO WHICH THE JEWS
WERE SUSCEPTIBLE

REWROTE AND EDITED
THE GENESIS STORY
TO GIVE THEIR DISPLACED COUNTRYMEN
HOPE
AND VISION

THEY INCORPORATED OF COURSE
SOME OF THE OLD BABYLONIAN TALES
SUCH AS THE FLOOD
AND THE TOWER OF BABEL

BUT WHEN IT CAME TO CREATION
THEY DID A HUNDRED AND EIGHTY

NO STRUGGLE
NO CONSTANT SEX
AS THE EGYPTIANS
DID WITH THE BROTHER AND SISTER
EARTH AND SKY

GOD SIMPLY SAID
BEGIN
AND IT WAS SO
GOD SAID
IT'S GOOD

NOW WHETHER IT TOOK
AN INSTANT
OR MILLENNIUMS
FOR FRUITION

IT DOESN'T MATTER
GOD SAID BEGIN
AND IT WAS

OUT OF NOTHING
IT WAS

BUT WHEN IT CAME TO MAN

THE SPIRIT THAT BROODED OVER THE ABYSS
BREATHED INTO HIM A SOUL
AND MADE HIM THE CAPSTONE OF HIS CREATION

AND GOD SAID
THAT'S GOOD

AND THE JEWS KNEW THAT MAN WAS SPECIAL
MADE
NOT FROM THE SWEAT OF BATTLE
THE BLOOD DROPS OF WAR
THE SEMEN OF SEX

GOD SAID BEGIN
AND IT WAS

GOD SAID
LET US MAKE MAN
AND IT WAS SO

AND IT WAS GOOD

NO STRUGGLE

OH GOD TOLD A FISHERMAN'S JOKE
WHEN HE ASKED JOB
IF HE COULD CATCH A WHALE ON A HOOK


BUT THE JEWS KNEW
EVEN THOUGH
THEY WERE FOREIGNERS
IN A FOREIGN LAND

THAT THEY
AND EVERY MAN WAS SPECIAL
NOT MADE BY ACCIDENT
BUT A DELIBERATE CREATION

THAT GOD
THEN
NOW
AND ALWAYS
WOULD HOLD THEM IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND


FRANK A VOLLMER