God in the Face of Infinity

“So…” God threw the thesis on the table with a thump that resonated in the holy chamber. “This many worlds interpretation…it’s valid?”

The angel’s brow was lined with golden droplets of sweat. “I-it would seem so, O Lord.”

The Almighty sighed and settled heavily into his throne. “The first commandment.” He shook His radiant head. “I’m a fucking fraud. Now everyone’ll think I’m as narcissistic as the devil.”

“But my Lord–,” the angel cut himself short, the consequences of continuing the thought out loud evident in God’s glare.

“In an infinity of Myself, originality is dead. What point is there in continued existence?”

“Lord, if I may interject?” the angel trembled, averting his gaze.

“Go on.”

“Almighty, have you ever watched The Highlander?”

Escaping the Morning

On a greased jetbike through the graveyard
Past rocketing headstones upflung
Throttles a darkly malignant Death
Addicted to your rigid horror

Chrome leaking blood red lubrication
Unholy rubber scent of brimstone
Jawbone bursts hellfire leaking grimace
Calcified sin-stained cold bone fingers

Spitting gouts of acceleration
O’er  the grinning dead rolling in graves
Gunning the engine dusk dead to rights
Mad escape from the morn’s horizon

Old enamel clacking the refrain
Of a fearful self preservation
Drowned by hellhound howling of engine,
“Oh, this’ll be the death of myself!”