The Forgiven

THE FORGIVEN 1. When it was the time to be the end and everyone had gone into the ark to be counted then they came two by two, a girl ox and a boy ox a girl elephant and a boy elephant a girl rattle snake and a boy rattle snake two boy pandas. 2. A boy garter snake and girl garter snake and they all did go into their cages along with all the other two by twos and Noah did say "bring them pandas to me quarters..." And lo, in the days before the end then came the plain faced young men out from the hills, 3. Lo they said unto the scribes Let us tell you what to write so that we may enjoy the night, and let us tell it unto the world that every man be unto his own desire and they said it is good. 4. Verily when the scribes agreed and then they had layed it to the stone so that every man and woman of the land saw that it was good, 5. Then did the men, yea all of the men both young and old in their years, grow weary of a womans ways. 6. And they then made their beds with their own but the plague had not yet to begin. 7. Now the young men said unto the rulers of all the lands it is our time. And they then said, Yea, do not you see what marvels we work? Even unto the very limits of space do not we make the way? 8. So that the rulers said yea, and it is your time. 9. But HE rebuked them all for they fornicated and did all manner of unearthly thing. And said HE unto them take ye your pricks with which ye inject all that defileth your bodies and bury them in the hills so that none will ever find them again. 10. But they said nay it is our time. And they then made merry even until the morning came and so HE layed down a plague even unto their very toes. 11. And HE said Ye that fornicate and inject pleasure into your veins surely your children and your childrens children shall know the wrath. 12. But they pleaded unto HIM and HE heard them not. 13. And said HE, ye shall suffer pain and untimely death and all sorts of catastrophic ordeal for your deeds even unto an hundred years shall ye die. 14. And they cried but they heard HIM not. 15. And it came to pass after an hundred years had passed, that a child was born unto an unholy house, but she was without the plague. And all the rulers marveled that she should not be thus stricken. And HE said unto them This ye shall do unto such as is born without the plague, 16. ye shall bury all of your earthly pleasures yea and never again inject it into your blood. 17. Ye shall fornicate not any longer. 18. Ye shall take up your natural mates and not lay with your own when you are weary. 19. And after six nights ye shall be forgiven and so shall your children and your childrens children be so forgiven. 20. And they wondered together even unto the morning light did they wonder but they heard HIM not. 21. And they found the child without the sin and so did let her know what pleasures they did find in the night. 22. And so HE then said and declared what manner of fools are ye that reject all that is just and good? 23. And HE did bring an end to the plague but HE then did cry.