They’ve new criteria now for the crew:
Each one should worship as the others would.
One-half a married couple will not do.
Though they don’t know it, they are in for good.
Good physical and mental health is still
essential for the staff committee’s picks,
but military status henceforth will
be less important than the gender mix.
The books they read and copy now include
less for the mind and more to reach the soul.
As one book says, their spirits too need food.
What’s read alone just wouldn’t keep them whole.
Once these and other changes have been made,
and all the lot is tested as can be,
some seven of these tubes can be arrayed
beneath restricted portions of the sea.
©2010 Louis A. Merrimac
Read alone: See Deuteronomy 8:2-3, Matthew 4:4, and Luke 4:4. I don't know whether to call this a play on words or a paraphrase.
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Well if you had links to those cites I would check them & tell you.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to link to the Bible. Does anyone know a good website for that?
ReplyDeleteNoemi suggested Gutenberg,, so I pulled up the first King James that came up there. The urls are http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?pageno=20&fk_files=19996,
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?pageno=13&fk_files=20144, and http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=20136&pageno=6
These don't link, though.
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