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A day at the jobexchange bureu

”Hello”
”Hello, welcome, please be seated... So, seeking a job are you?”
”Well..sort of..er”
”Let´s begin with the formalities, You know, we bureucrats always need to fill our papers..he..he”
”I see..of course”
”Name?”
”Guldur, G-u-l-d-u-r...”
”Yes, thank you, second name..”
”Well, sorry, that´s all..”
”No second name? Alright, occupation?”
”I´m God”
”God?”
”Yes, I´ll admit a minor one since I could count my followers on one hand. But, yes, basically that´s my profession for almost three thousand years. Give or take a few hundred, it´s not easy to keep up..”
”God..er..hmm, what did you have in mind to, to hmm... What kind of help or new job, do You except from us? I mean, what skills does a God have, you know anything about computers?”
”Actually I haven´t needed any of them, the few followers I still have provide me with power to change atoms to whatever I need, well.. Although I have to admit, it was more fun to do a miracle every other hundreds years or so.. But no, although minor, I´m pretty good as God. But I´ve learned that that doesn´t count as a professional skill around here anymore...Yet, if I´m permitted to continue...
”I´m all ears..”
”I passsed by here and read the sign ”Job exchange” so I thought that maybe you could provide me with some followers... I mean, new age and that stuff growing, maybe you had some confession-seekers without a God? You ought to know it´s a almost a full time job, keeping a God on good terms as soon as you have begun believing in him..or for that matter her...”
”Well, actually our bureu isn´t made for working in that direction, if You didn´t have in mind actually go in as a employer and hire some followers”
”What, you..! Ooh, I understand, you are another atheist, no Gods... So you haven´t the slightest idea that, that isn´t the way beliefs work.”
”Didn´t mean to offend you, but if you aren´t going to employ someone or have in mind beginning a new profession, I´m afraid I can´t offer you much.”
”Oh, I doesn´t matter, I just thought..passing..”
”But, let´s see, some church or political party could use a God, wait a second..here..hello..hello..How could he disappear, just like that.. What a job! All these losers coming in for jobs that don`t exist, presenting himself as a God. My, my, ...OK, who´s next”
”How do you do?”
”Nice to meet you, be seated, and what can I do for You..?”
”You know, I´ve always been interested in exchange business, so I had to come in and see, what you´ld have for a nice little devil like me..”
Seppo Laine 99-03-23

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Poems

Morning
Solemn thoughts throbbing
shaped in tough remorse
broke his jawn

Silent glide
Pale anguished
love drowned in kitchen
no funeral held

Travel
The bus stopped
by doing so
confirmed
the influence
on reality
of a six year old child


Daddy, let me know
when it´s time
to signal
Exactly the same words
were uttered by me
to my mum
in a bus
long gone
Our journey
stretches
from now
to
moments past

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