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    This poem describes humanity's "reverse creation" of the world through various destructive acts and divisions, leading to the destruction of Earth. It depicts humanity deciding to embrace drugs and escape from reality, destroy nature's beauty, embrace darkness and division through separate races and religions, empower controlling governments and militaries, develop ever more efficient weapons, foster divisions between nations, and create God in humanity's own violent image. This reverse creation culminates in Earth's destruction by fire and God's weeping over the smoldering ruins.

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    Reverse Creation

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    This poem describes humanity's "reverse creation" of the world through various destructive acts and divisions, leading to the destruction of Earth. It depicts humanity deciding to embrace drugs and escape from reality, destroy nature's beauty, embrace darkness and division through separate races and religions, empower controlling governments and militaries, develop ever more efficient weapons, foster divisions between nations, and create God in humanity's own violent image. This reverse creation culminates in Earth's destruction by fire and God's weeping over the smoldering ruins.

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    This poem describes humanity's "reverse creation" of the world through various destructive acts and divisions, leading to the destruction of Earth. It depicts humanity deciding to embrace drugs and escape from reality, destroy nature's beauty, embrace darkness and division through separate races and religions, empower controlling governments and militaries, develop ever more efficient weapons, foster divisions between nations, and create God in humanity's own violent image. This reverse creation culminates in Earth's destruction by fire and God's weeping over the smoldering ruins.

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    Reverse Creation

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    Leah Arnaez
    This poem describes humanity's "reverse creation" of the world through various destructive acts and divisions, leading to the destruction of Earth. It depicts humanity deciding to embrace drugs and escape from reality, destroy nature's beauty, embrace darkness and division through separate races and religions, empower controlling governments and militaries, develop ever more efficient weapons, foster divisions between nations, and create God in humanity's own violent image. This reverse creation culminates in Earth's destruction by fire and God's weeping over the smoldering ruins.

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    REVERSE CREATION

    And we said...

    by Bernard Backman

    Let there be drugs and other forms of


    escape, for there is this constant annoyance
    - Reality - which is disturbing our comfort.
    And there was no evening and no morning on
    the fourth day before the end.

    In the end, we destroyed the heaven that


    was called Earth. The Earth had been
    beautiful until our spirit moved over it and
    destroyed all things.
    And we said...
    Let there be darkness... and there was
    darkness. And we liked the darkness; so we
    called the darkness, Security. And we divided
    ourselves into races and religions and
    classes of society. And there was no morning
    and no evening on the seventh day before
    the end.
    And we said...
    Let there be a strong government to control
    us in our darkness. Let there be armies to
    control our bodies so that we may learn to
    kill one another neatly and efficiently in our
    darkness. And there was no evening and no
    morning on the sixth day before the end.
    And we said...
    Let there be rockets and bombs to kill faster
    and easier; let there be gas chambers and
    furnaces to be more thorough. And there was
    no evening and no morning on the fifth day
    before the end.

    And we said...
    Let there be divisions among the nations, so
    that we may know who is our common
    enemy. And there was no evening and no
    morning on the third day before the end.
    And finally we said...
    Let us create God in our image. Let some
    other God compete with us. Let us say that
    God thinks as we think, hates as we hate,
    and kills as we kill. And there was no
    morning and no evening on the second day
    before the end.
    On the last day, there was a great noise on
    the face of the Earth. Fire consumed the
    beautiful globe, and there was silence. The
    blackened Earth now rested to worship the
    one true God; and God saw all that we had
    done, and in the silence over the smoldering
    ruins... God wept.

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