The newspaper trailer for Genesis
Hold onto your mitres, you nightly nail-biters,
the Big One is up next week.
So grab a cold beer and turn the page here
and get ready to cheer and to freak.
That's right--out of the vacuous gloom
He'll whip up a garden and folk.
You got it, it's weird, but here comes The Boom:
He's making a world--no joke!
His spirit's moving, the water's fine;
though a neutron's refused to split!
but He's got it covered; it's in His design.
(They skip this in Biblical Lit.)
Where there was nothing--a universe!--
with chatter and kids and right whales,
picnics and Perth and what some will find worse,
lit. critics with cork screw tails
Some folks won't like it, no, not a bit.
They'll bellow and raise a commotion.
There'll be Facists and fools and no place to sit
and condos will rot by the ocean.
It's a hot fresh piece you won't want to miss.
The lines will stretch to the loo.
He's handing out sweets. Even skeptics like this.
(But surely that doesn't mean: you!)
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