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The Jay

October 11, 2022
By SummerRose GOLD, St. Paul, Minnesota
SummerRose GOLD, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Favorite Quote:
“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.”


The one who causes the morning's troubles,

And sends screeches through the air,

The one who wakes up in the morning,

To give the mischief stare,

And laughs at his jokes,

To the birds' dismay,

That would be the Jay.


The author's comments:

I wrote this when I was younger, after watching a blue jay get into a fight with a squirrel, fly into a tree, and start "laughing" at him.


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