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How to Create an Agnostic

posted Sep 30, 2008

Singing with my son,

I clapped my hands
Just as lightning struck.

It was dumb luck.

But my son, awed, thought
I’d created the electricity.

He asked, “Dad, how'd you do that?”

Before I could answer,
thunder shook the house

And set off neighborhood car alarms.

“Dad,” he said. “Can you burn
down that tree outside my window?

The one that looks like a giant owl?”

O, my little disciple, my one boy choir,
I can’t do that

because your father,
your half-assed messiah,

is afraid of fire.

© 2008 Sherman Alexie

Sherman Alexie, Absolutely True Tale
© Little, Brown

Sherman Alexie is the author of 19 books of poetry and prose, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the National Book Award Winner for Young People’s Literature.

His new book of poems, Face, is due out in early 2009 from Hanging Loose Press.

He lives in Seattle with his wife and sons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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