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And still happy hour.

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This is called
"Storm Catechism."

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I was raised Catholic.

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And so we had something called
the Baltimore Catechism.

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It was great because all
the hard questions of life

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were answered.

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Who made man?

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God made man.

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Why did God make man?

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To love, honor, and serve Him.

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You know, so everything
was sort of handled,

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which was nice for a while.

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So this is called
"Storm Catechism."

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And it's a poem that
asks some questions

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and attempts to answer them.

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And it's about the gods,
but you could easily

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substitute politicians,
and-- you know, same deal.

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"Storm Catechism."

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The gods are rinsing
their just-boiled pasta

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in a colander, which
is why it is humid

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and fitfully raining
down here in the steel

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sink of mortal life.

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Sometimes, you can
smell the truffle oil

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and hear the ambrosia
being knocked back.

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Sometimes, you catch
a drift of laughter

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in that thunder crack--

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Zeus knocking over his glass,
spilling lightning into a tree.

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The tree shears away from
itself and falls on a car,

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killing a high school girl.

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Or maybe it just crashes
down on a few trash

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cans, and the next
day, gets cut up

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and hauled away by the city--

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either way, hilarity.

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The gods are infinitely
perfect, as is

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their divine mac and cheese.

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Where does macaroni come from?

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Where does matter?

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Why does the cat
act autistic when

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you call her, then bat
around a moth for an hour,

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watching intently as it drags
its wings over the area rug?

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The gods were here first,
and they're bigger.

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They always were, and
always will be living it

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up in their father's mansion.

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You only crawled from the
drain a few millennia ago

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after inventing legs for
yourself so you could stand,

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inventing fists in order
to raise them and curse

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the heavens.

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Do the gods see us?

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Will the waters be rising soon?

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The waters will be rising soon.

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Find someone or
something to cling to.

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