Slingers and Slingstones

He didn’t take it seriously the first few times his roommates suggested that he start peddling images of Jesus, of Yoshke, as he preferred to call him. He thought they were kidding. How could they be…

How can it be told in simple, quiet words? How can you gloss over the sharp outcry So that people will listen to it and be silent, With mute eyes, even without a sigh? Without a sigh, since every…

How shall I bless him and what will this child be blessed with? asked the angel. Life—so it emerges from the song lyric—was among the options of the angel’s blessing. But after all, angels don’t exist…