Every Thursday and every 28th of the month will be a way to mark
time. I don't know if it will always be like that. Eleven weeks ago
our universe was altered. Now I know why the biblical authors used
apocalyptic language. Like this from Joel:
Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests;
wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come, pass the night in sackcloth,
you ministers of my God!....
Alas for the day!
For the day of the Lord is near,
and as destruction from the Almighty it comes.
Is not the food cut off
before our eyes,
joy and gladness
from the house of our God?
The seed shrivels under the clods,
the storehouses are desolate;
the granaries are ruined
because the grain has failed.
How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle wander about
because there is no pasture for them;
even the flocks of sheep are dazed....
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy mountain!
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming, it is near—
a day of darkness and gloom...
The earth quakes before them,
the heavens tremble.
The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.
I never thought I would write this but that is some damn good poetry.
Zach would laugh at me because yesterday I cried when I heard Skeeter Davis. How screwed up is that?
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