Orts #784

PSALM        by Garrison Keillor, in O, What a Luxury (2013)

Blessed is the man who does not sit in the seat of the 

    scornful. But his delight is in the LORD.

O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good: for 

    His mercy endureth for ever even through the 2012 

    presidential campaign.

Yea, though Barack Obama went blank during the first 

    debate and let that gilded idiot Romney smarm and 

    strut and puff, yet will I give thanks unto Thee, O 

    LORD GOD.

Yea, though the Gallup poll shows the race in a dead

    heat and Romney is full of crazed confidence,

    and we must contemplate the return of Calvinist

    economics and smallpox and indentured servitude

    and stiffer sentences for stealing bread, yet will I

    praise Thee, O LORD GOD.

And though it is late October, and my tongue bleeds

    from biting it when people whom I know personally

    say that maybe Romney can get the economy

    moving, yet I will attempt to praise the LORD for

    His goodness to me.

Romney will be elected President and the white House

    will be full of grinning Caucasoids who believe God

    has given them dominion over the earth. Have mercy 

    upon me and answer me, O LORD.

And the LORD hath shown mercy. Barack Obama won

    Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia,

    Nevada, and Florida, and Mr. Romney came on TV

    stunned, tongue-tied, and the Koch brothers and

    Karl Rove were confounded and had to eat their

    underwear and Mr. Obama gave an elegant victory

    speech and we went to bed saying, Thanks be to

    You, O LORD. Your mercy endureth forever. Amen.

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Bonus link: Oliver Sacks died a year ago, on August 30, 2015.
A brief but touching "last interview" is here:   https://vimeo.com/160629469