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December 28, 2010
Re-writing the Bible by ~SomethingArbitrary is a satirical piece that pokes fun at humanity, suggesting we lighten up when it comes to religion. Not only is it amusing, but the author shows off a creative imagination with the way the world appears and is put together, offering a modern explanation behind the blights in humanity's history.
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ugly consumption
monday my little girl asked, "what would happen if someone ate
the sun and
how many calories does it have?"
and i wish i could see myself objectively, wish
my skin wasn't worn from
fitful starvation.
have you ever seen your
hands as i do, strange bloated things
in search of bones?
and i wish i could remember when beauty
was a mouth red as pomegranate seeds eyes
like sickle moons. back when it was
more than numbers. ninety-five, eighty-eight.
get down to eighty-five and you will be
beautiful. be
thin and sexless as wet march.
tuesday pa told me: "acceptance ain't something you
can buy at a convenience store."
and i am all ma
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on not knowing.
this road was ten miles long.
i traveled barefoot.
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The Great Wall
When papers ask me where I'm from, I write "Seattle," because they don't want to know the real answer. When people ask me where I'm from, I say "downtown," and they take a good look at me and take that to mean "Chinatown."
My parents run one of the zillion dim sum restaurants here. They're what the white kids at school call "fresh off the boat." Most of the people here are. They don't speak English at home, and they try not to at work. They don't watch anything on American TV; they read the local Chinese paper and watch the one Asian channel, pausing to turn off the TV in disgust whenever one of the five daily Korean soap operas comes on. On
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A quickly thrown-together satire of the Bible and beyond. It's a bit surrealist-- sort of based on Eddie Izzard's style of comedy, and, if you're religious at all, it'll probably offend you. Or maybe not-- who am I to judge?
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Brilliant. Simply brilliant.