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Nin Andrews

Notes for a Sermon on the Mount

1. Pussies are not gods. They are creates beings.
2. Unlike god, they do not always exist.
3. Dignified, majestic, intelligent, we must attend to them nonetheless.
4. Like all spiritual beings, pussies cannot be seen with the human eye at just any time of day.
5. Pussies represent both the visible and the invisible, the sacred and the profane.
6. They appear to be nowhere and everywhere at once. To be personal and impersonal, human and divine.
7. In the occult story of Adam and Eve, God placed a sword-bearing angel at the entrance of the divine pussy to keep the unwary from ever returning.
8. Revelations describe them as being "robed in a cloud with a rainbow over their heads."
9. Many times a pussy has taken on the form of an actual woman and is sometimes mistakenly thought to have a human spirit.
10. One must not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing so, one might entertain a pussy eithout even knowing it.
11. Always remember: one must never pray to pussies. Or other golden heifers.
12. Nor should one ask God to send forth a pussy to help minister to one's soul.
13. A pussy must come of its own accord. For thus is the way of the pussy and of the alpha and omega.

(from The Best American Poetry, 2001, Robert Hass, guest editor, Scribner Poetry, 2001).