Dan the Roadside Snake

Biting the heel of the horse

The rider falls
Does anyone help the fallen up?

The Bible
Two-edged sword backcutting
if not careful
Science
The perfect cover for a
slippery lie
People
Striving for fulfillment
of desire
Desire
A farrago with something
at the core

The tiny powerhouses
In the cells of human beings
Hold a secret that bugs like a bug

The powerhouses hold threads
That gather glitches
At a clockable rate
Which glitches
By engineering estimate and the old college try
Measure back to the Mom of all Moms
“A hundred and fifty thousand years
Was how long ago humans began”
Say they—as it may be seen in fossils

Yet in contrast to Science the Bible says
“Six thousand years and a few”

How if said it can be can God
Make a Rock that He cannot move?

Grant that God made Science
Assigning Adam the very first role
Science a model of nature
Elucidating the things that it does

Acknowledge that God wrote the Bible
Autographed by a subtle hand
The Bible of internal harmony
The searcher of hearts—the Book

Hand subtle yet strong—Almighty—
The Bible a Book with power to say
“Excuse me Science for in this instance
Your conclusion I override”

Science being the stuff of God
Is a Stuff with power to say
“Excuse me Bible for in this instance
My fact demands your allegorization”

If the Bible yields then we have it—
A figuration from which we learn
Or if Science has cozened itself then we have it—
Back to the drawing board

In the case where the Bible holds strong
And the mistake in Science fails to show
And scrutiny resolves nothing at all
Then did the Rock move or no?


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