Notes About The Poem

These verses are triolets giving way to couplets. 

How Many Miles in the Color Blue?

How many miles in the color blue?
How many verbs are divisible by two?
How many crimes are solved without a clue?

How many feathers are on a shark’s back?
How much weather is in your backpack?
How many corn husks did the American Revolution lack?

Can God make a boulder so big He can’t lift it?
Can God make someone that can’t be sifted?
Or make a square circle or a shape non-existent?

Can God undo things done?
Can God run faster than He can run?
Does He do things just for fun?

Is God absurd for the sake of dadaism?
Does He consult a schism for the sake of a schism?
Can He be as fake as fake is realism?
                
What’s the sound of one hand clapping?
What’s the sound inside the insane mind when their laughing?
What’s around the corner when you’re done lapping?

Does God give a Gift as regifted?
Does God have Satan sifted?

Does God do anything illicit?
(If you think so you’ve missed it)

If God is all good, then He should
Get rid of all the evil

If God is all powerful and benevolent
How can there be evil so prevalent?

He should be able to prevent
All evil and its intent

Maybe God has a morally sufficient reason 
For the things we see as treason

For all the suffering we experience
Does it make us delirious?

Here beneath Him, from Adam’s kin
As we bequeath sin to the next generation

No veneration for our vacating of
Adjacent placement of God’s love

(In logic this doesn’t break
The fourth term fallacy or equivocate)

We are walking into a movie halfway through it
And draw conclusions of God's intention as if God blew it
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