Today I found God!
\nIn the palm of my hand…
\nIn him I trust, to pay
\nMy daily quarter-pound ham.
\nObliged by my deity to spend
\nSweet insatiable demands.
\nMy God is generous and wants me to have;
\nMinivans, and drive-throughs, superficial devotions,
\nBetter job performance, less headaches and more sex,
\nThe more I have, the more I wish I had less…<\/p>\n
Great pleasure-seekers addicted to routine!
\nSave my soul savings for satisfaction guarantees…
\nHumor me please, real people, real beef,
\nI am what I eat; domesticated meat.
\nSweet liberty never felt so free,
\nWhen I spend my freedom on cable TV.
\nBut what am I really, filled with the wisdom of slogans?
\nTalk show debates and coupon code rebates…
\nThe more I have, the more I wish I was a nomad.<\/p>\n
In the age of all-you-can-eats,
\nI never felt so hungry, or less pleased.
\nSlow surrender as I age, stimulated demise,
\nUnderstand me please, dear shrink, I can pay for sympathy.
\nBut hunger devours, such strange hunger gnaws at me,
\nIn unsatisfied growing measure.
\nThe more I eat the less I feel,
\nWhile I eat I can feel free.
\nI’m told I need love, I can pay for empathy.
\nBut the more I pay, the more I cheat myself of me…<\/p>\n
Love me blind desire and passionate apathy.
\nMarketable devotion
\nQuoth the car salesman; “Try before you buy!”
\nAnd love became a slogan.
\nDo significant others come shrink wrapped in a package,
\nDesigned in Cupertino, California?
\nOr are they more whole-salable?
\nEn mass, economically stocked and stacked,
\nIn membership warehouses where various brands,
\nAre available in various ethnic groups.
\nAnd what’s the exchange policy? I wonder…
\nYet, the more I try before I buy, the more I wish I never had.<\/p>\n
God in the palm of my hand,
\nWith this God, I may have whatever I will.
\nAnd with this God, cups need not run over,
\nAs this God proffers refills.
\nThen why, oh God, do I feel so empty?
\nDespite, oh God, cups being filled?
\nOh God, my God, all knowing, all seeing,
\nOh God have mercy on this dying being…
\nThat God I wish I never had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I found God! In the palm of my hand… In him I trust, to pay My daily quarter-pound ham. Obliged by my deity to spend Sweet insatiable demands. My God is generous and wants me to have; Minivans, and drive-throughs, superficial devotions, Better job performance, less headaches and more sex, The more I have, the more I wish I had less… Great pleasure-seekers addicted to routine! Save my soul savings for satisfaction guarantees… Humor me please, real people, real beef, I am what I eat; domesticated meat. Sweet liberty never felt so free, When I spend my freedom on...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nathalielawhead.com\/candybox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}