The world is running on fumes. The wife of the new Japanese prime minister, Miyuki Hatoyama, claims she once traveled to Venus, was abducted by aliens on another occasion, and knew Tom Cruise in a previous life when Tom was Japanese. She makes her own clothes, and is apparently particularly proud of a nice little frock made from Hawaiian coffee sacks. In Britain, one Peter Bryan, a schizophrenic who was convicted of murdering a woman with a hammer, was released to the care of a social worker and allowed to live by himself in London, where he killed two more people and ate their brains. G. K. Chesterton said, “When people stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.” People believe in UFOs, magic, oneworldism, multiculturalism, global warming, sea monsters, fairies, Hillary Clinton, time travel, Nostradamus, Barack Obama, ghosts, vampires and werewolves. We now live in a society that has rejected God for Nietzsche’s Madman.
Being captured might be chilling
While to others could be thrilling
And especially if you get to meet Tom Cruise
Traveling from Earth to Venus
Is a little, just between us
Likely something that would make the evening news
The new Japanese first lady
Might not be Rosie O’Grady
But Kipling surely would have seen her through
But if it brings her happiness
To think Tom Cruise is Japiness
Then I think that there is nothing we should do
And as for the guy who eats brains of his victims
It is plain that social workers heed the dictums
Of people who know what to do with those
Who transgress the laws of nature with such crudity
Who think taking tops off heads is topless nudity
Who after dining lay them down in sweet repose
But God is dead or so says mein Herr Nietzsche
Not so! to Stonewall said our Barbara Frietchie
Our God’s alive and so’s our flag
And so’s Miyuki’s coffee sack rag
And damn it guys the whole world’s dandy peachy