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Poems from a Stool · 2026

If God Is a Wise Parent

If God is a wise parent, then we are disobedient children. If God is a guide to follow, then we're fish asleep in the nets. If God is brute force, then no stone will be left on stone. There's no way force would ask to wait while everyone judges it. If God is the frontier of knowledge, we are His kilometer zero. If God is a child-killer, we're not people, but glued-together felt, slapdash and for no good reason, just because, out of useless scraps, in the shape of a woman or a man and with a soul vile to the limit. If God is just a salesman, then you and I aren't worth a penny that, having slipped out of a wallet by chance, lies uselessly on a step.
Draft translation, the author is still revising it · written in Russian