[3226] in Humor
Anti-Serenity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gif)
Fri Jun 9 19:12:11 2000
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 19:11:50 -0400
From: gif <gif@MIT.EDU>
The Anti-Serenity Prayer
God grant me the anxiety
to try to control the things I cannot control,
the fear to avoid the things I can,
and the neurosis to deny the difference.
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For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson.
