“…you sit there, having done your time, having finished / the mountainous labor of singing out hunger and grief.”
— Bella Akhmadulina, from The Garden; “I Swear” (Tr. F.D. Reeve)
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““I’m dead and in hell. I’ve known that for years,” you say. / And I step quietly back into the night.”
— Bianca Stone, from “Blue Jays,” The Möbius Strip Club of Grief
“Night and mist, what bones you have eaten,”
— Leonidas of Tarentum, tr. by Peter Levi, from Greek Anthology; “Epigrams,”
Me: *thinking about Christian memes* What if Jesus had come in 2017 instead of back during Roman times? Would He, instead of using parables, have spoken in memes?
Roommate: I hate you. You aren’t allowed to have any more thoughts about Jesus.
Me: It’s not like its heresy! It isn’t insulting!
Roommate: Yes, it is! Memes are inherently sin, a sign of the Devil’s influence on this fallen world!
Satan: turn these stones into bread
Jesus: bold of you to assume that man can live on bread alone
a fig tree out of season: *no figs*
jesus: then perish
Ok but from a purely theological standpoint, based on the way Jesus communicated (he talked in ways that would be understandable to at least some extent by the general public, and had a lot of respect for children)…
Theologically speaking, Jesus would almost certainly have spoken in memes.
“Whenever you crack open a cold one with the boys in my name, there I be in your midst”