Wednesday 30 May 2012

God's Funeral

A simple poem I wrote, designed to reveal (perhaps a little more accurately than colloquial understanding) the thought behind Nietzsche's infamous "God is dead" in The Gay Science:

It was a private event.

It had to be; otherwise the masses would pry open the empty coffin.

You can't bury a word.

Maybe you can bury the thing toward which it points?
I don't think you'd be able to make an infinitely large coffin.

Godknows where you'd bury it.



I thought this would be an apt beginning for this blog. Something a little more expansive coming soon.

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