(no, imaginary reader, nothing has been skipped. sections v, vii and viii of the original performance were other spoken word pieces interjected into the original for the sake of the performance.)
vi
They do not call them avatars for nothing;
Each reflects the needs, desires, skills, aesthetics, hopes
Of every private deity who chooses to create
Who must create because the world we have above is
Not the world we want to make our only world,
Because we deal in penal substitution, make
Our little Christs to bear our sins to suffer
Heal
Create our small religions
Gather up disciples;
Now I shall make you fishers of compliments
And every day that someone new becomes a being
And a story begins is a tiny Christmas day
A genesis without a midwife or a womb
A new creation.
A nativity.
