Fat Tuesday

Never has that so appropriately defined my state. My nickname could be Fat Tuesday. I'm not that big, but I am hefty! A Lentious Poem: 40 days ain't that much Just think of Jesus & his crutch! It's a shame that Mardi Gras has been so secularized. I think eating leavened bread for the last time is a little bit different than slothily gulping down booze. This apparent upholding of a religious action has acutlly served to undermine its intented purposes. Like Christmas' Over Indulgence & the Easter Bunny, The Hallmark Way is indeed a barrier behind which the true Meaning of these holidays is clouded. Christmas means so much more to me when I think about what it really means! I love giving presents (& yes getting them) I'm no prude, but I also know that the actual celebration is terribly misguided (as much as I do enjoy it). Easter is worse, for it is truly the most meaningful Christian Holiday, is it not? I'm not one of those people who doesn't celebrate Halloween because of its apparent demonicialnessed basis. I love Halloween, and I love Santa Claus. I don't really love the Easter Bunny, however, he's just weird in the Lewis Carroll sense of the word. To me, the Easter Bunny is the emotional equivalent of the Tooth Fairy or the Energizer Bunny. I suppose parallels & metaphors can be read: The Easter Bunny is Jesus, collecting souls (eggs) - actually though, the Easter bunny leaves the eggs, doesn't he? For us to find? Hmm, I can smell the fertile meaning in that! The pastuerization of our collective belief system has gone beyond the realm of invisibility. It is there Wormwood & Screwtape do their deeds, in the invisible shadows of what is right. Oh yeah, Happy St.Valentine's Day!
Tuesday, February 12, 2002
11:06 a.m.
by: adam douglas payne