The Wind Moved Upon the Waters and Covered the Waters with Slapstick Fun

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The hurricane calmed down.  We looked upon

The wreckage caused by wind and rain and God.

Our chain-link fence was twisted and our lawn

Was drowned.  He thought that we were not quite awed

And so He made the storm to torture more.

He made a twister and that yanked the fence

And tied a knot.  Tornado’s force then tore

The neighbors’ roof away.  It lacked defense

From such a thorough deity.  A beam

Collapsed and struck the wife below the path

Of force.  They could not hear her scream

Because of howls of God, His muttered wrath.

  A brother went to help.  He found the pool,

    Swamped swimming pool.  He fell as if a fool.