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Pslam 90:2 "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God." I am not real certain where Anis Mojgani comes from belief-wise. Cats like him tend to be synchrestic spiritually rather than Christ-centered. Yet, this poem captures the spirit of Jesus. What this poem also needs is grace....we shake off sin and mortality and take on Christ and immortality. This is for the fat girls This is for the little brothers For the former prom queen And for the milk crate ball players This is for the school yard wimps And the childhood bullies that tormented them Shake the dust. This is for the benches and the people sitting upon them. This is for the bus drivers driving a million broken hymns And for the men who have to hold down 3 jobs, Simply to hold up their children. For the nighttime schoolers And for the midnight bike riders trying to fly Shake the dust. For the two year olds who cann...

Fascinating to me that in my several years of blogging and the nearly two hundred posts that I have written for Bierkergaard, the collection has garnered less attention in total than just two weeks of my 40/40 Beer Blog. It must because I am using WordPress for 40/40 rather than BlogSpot (Bierkergaard). Dang, I knew it couldn't be me. Actually, I am fully aware that the topic of beer is of great interest to many people and that explains the attention. Some dude who has decided to do the male version of Julie and Julia , is a compelling story. It pays to select a topic that people pay attention to. The problem then is that there are a trillion other people writing about it. So, one has to come up with a unique proposition, an angle and experience, that differentiates it. By all signs, 40/40 fits the bill. One ironic thing is that I think drinking beer is fun and fine. But, I hardly see it as a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Some treat drinking microbrews as almost an act...