My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? <br />I will declare thy name unto my brethren.… Psalm 102 <br /> <br />OK. Let’s not call what ditched us God: <br />ghu, the root in Sanskrit, means not God, <br />but only the calling thereupon. Let’s call God <br />Fun. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word <br />was Fun. Fun created man in his own image. <br />The fool hath said in his heart, There is no Fun. <br />Let’s call the House of God the Funhouse. Fun <br />derives, according to Dr. Onions (may he <br />with his Johnson rest in peace), from fond, <br />or foolish. God, in this prime sense, is fond <br />of us, and we, if all goes well, of him. Let’s <br />call God luck. There is no luck in scripture. <br />Chance gets mentioned several times, my favorite <br />being, Time and chance happeneth to them all; <br />but luck is the unspoken name. King David <br />to the harp and sackbut sings, in paraphrase, My luck? <br />Gimme a fucking break! With my luck, how do I know?<br /><br />Brooks Haxton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/thy-name-2/
