The infamous cities Sodom and Gomorrah,
On the coast of the Dead Sea, at the southern end,
Inspired the anger of Jehovah by their sins.
Jehovah said to Abraham: "I will smite them."
"What if there were a hundred good men living there?"
Abraham asked. "Would you spare a city for them?"
"Yes." "Then what about fifty good men? twenty-five?
Ten? Five?" A city would be spared for five good men.
But we know what Jehovah means by a good man.
Was there ever a city that had living there,
At any given time, five non-sodomite men?
All-knowing Jehovah determined that one man,
Lot, who just happened to be Abraham's cousin,
Was the only man in the two cities of sin
Who had not recently engaged in sodomy.
Perhaps Jehovah was afraid that Abraham
Would stop offering lambs in sacrifice to him,
If he smote his cousin Lot as a sodomite?
Be that as it may, Jehovah sent two angels
To Lot, to tell him to get out of town quickly.
The story goes: the angels were so beautiful
That the perverts of Sodom went mad with desire,
Knocking at Lot's door, demanding to rape his guests.
Lot was an honorable host, and so he said:
"Rape my daughters instead." The family escaped
Through a back door and a back alley. They left town.
"Head for the hills," the angels said, "and don't look back."
Meteors poured down from the sky on the cities.
Their high sulphur content caused them to burn and stink,
As they sped through the atmosphere and crashed to earth,
Hitting the cities, burning the wooden buildings.
And an earthquake shook the bottom of the Dead Sea,
And the ground beneath the two cities. The earth cracked,
Swallowing up houses and terrified people.
A great tidal wave swept across the two cities.
Lot's wife heard the clamor, and thought of her girlfriend
And the quiet times they had petting each other.
She looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt,
Which cows lick with their caressing tongues to this day.
Lot reached the hills and safety with his two daughters.
The girls had no neighbors; no prospects of marriage.
They wanted children. So they got their father drunk,
And seduced him, one after another. It worked.
They got pregnant; and had the children they wanted.
The strange thing: every other god but Jehovah
Looks with mild eyes upon homosexuals,
But considers incest bad for the human race.
Needless to say, modern science agrees with them
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--Zagreus Nebula