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How Angels Smell

by Dovina

Member since 2004 · Posted 25 Sep 2005 · 14 comments

How can angels do their jobs to comfort a stink-sodden nose, or agree to fragrance of a rose? For after all the reverent hype, they have no sense of smell. In duty to God, and love of humans, they smell in emulation, then grimace or exert a smile at odors they imagine. Not so different after all from worshiping God with no accompanying Spirit, no way to feel His presence.

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[n/a] ALChemy 25-Sep-05/11:13 AM Reply
The Angel Michael smells like cookie dough and looks like John Travolta.

I heard they were blind but the not smelling thing is new to me. The next thing you'll be telling me is they have no feeling which explains why they don't bother having dicks.

Maybe God just smells really bad. That's why the angels have Michael Jackson noses and God hides from us.
Next time you smell something funky and you can't figure out where it came from feel comfort in knowing the holy father is near.

I like the idea of the poem. The blindness of faith and all.
[n/a] Dovina › ALChemy 28-Sep-05/5:27 AM Reply
Hear the Gospel According to Dovina! How dare you question it?
[n/a] ALChemy › Dovina 28-Sep-05/7:23 AM Reply
As it turns out I can not really hear you for I am only a figment of your imagination.
[n/a] Dovina › ALChemy 28-Sep-05/2:40 PM Reply
Is your name Zeus, Holy Father, or Dovina? And who is the figment?
[n/a] ALChemy › Dovina 28-Sep-05/3:32 PM Reply
My name is Vin Diesel and yes behold I am the Lord God.
[n/a] Dovina › ALChemy 28-Sep-05/3:43 PM Reply
If I can believe a figment when he says he’s Vin Diesel, then the actor I see as a god-like hunk is not real. Are you really he, for if your are, I am in a state of delusion and must surrender all I hold dear. Surely not!
[n/a] ALChemy › Dovina 30-Sep-05/7:45 AM Reply
The Vin Diesel you see in movies is actually a rare hairless gorilla indigenous to the jungle/toxic waste dump known as The Bronx. This explains the indecipherable monkey babble that dribbles from his mouth whenever he attempts to speak ('cause he's from The Bronx. Get it? brlllrumpbump-Tishhh.)
I've sped up the evolutionary process for his species so that within the next five years he and his kind will evolve into giant erect penises that will unite to take over the world beating all humans to death with their huge heads only to soon become extinct in the subsequent celebration catastrophe when they all drown in their own ejaculation. The world will then be the way it always should have been, Stupid.

Hear the prophecy of Evil Denis.
[6] LilMsLadyPoet 28-Sep-05/12:04 PM Reply
The last stanza didn't have the same flavour as the first two....felt it was kinda lacking there.
[n/a] Dovina › LilMsLadyPoet 28-Sep-05/2:39 PM Reply
Your spelling of “flavor” leads a casual reader to think you might be English. If so, you’ve got to bear down and write your complaints using vulgar and insulting language, or ruin the image the English have created here. hear! hear!
[6] LilMsLadyPoet › Dovina 18-Oct-05/11:29 AM Reply
Only English in the bloodline, never been there...but...flavour suggests, well, more flavour than the American-English flavor, don't you think? I also prefer grey to gray, and colour to color. It just seems richer...more full of flavour and colour when spelled the Olde English way. (Should those both end with e's? (I AM a descendant of Mary Stuart...and am intoxicated by David Bowie...does that count? LOL!)
[n/a] Dovina › LilMsLadyPoet 18-Oct-05/3:38 PM Reply
Okay, immitate British spelling if you think it adds good stuff: flavour, colour, odour. Just beware the errour, the tremour, the inferiour humour your apt to find here.
[10] zodiac 29-Sep-05/5:25 AM Reply
Utter drivel. Your poems have the power to make you, Dovina, personally, however far you think you're removed by narrative distance and metaphor from their content, look silly as you only could in real life by forgetting to wear pants to a 'Save Killer Asteroids' rally.
[n/a] Dovina › zodiac 30-Sep-05/6:47 AM Reply
Then I'll remove them farther from reality and more into drivel by adopting your suggestions.
[10] zodiac › Dovina 1-Oct-05/6:38 AM Reply
I've hardly ever made suggestions on your poems, except perhaps the suggestion that you 'stop writing incoherent drivel.' If you're suggesting you would remove your poems more into drivel if you stopped writing incoherent drivel, I'd like to see you try. If you mean you'll remove them more into drivel by adopting one of my many OBSERVATIONS, what the hell ever. Yours forever,
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