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Tag Archives: satire
Screwtape Revisited
From: B.B. Screwtape [mailto: screwtape@aol.com] To: D.A. Wormwood [mailto: satansman@earthlink.net] Date: June 26, 2001 Re: Current Assignments and Suggested Course of Action My dear child: I have been watching your progress over the past few decades, and I am happy … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged 2001 Harper-Collins contest, CS Lewis, devil, modernity, satire, Screwtape Letters
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Perigoric: a bestiary
It has strong legs and sturdy wings, and for them both has need; although the legs grow weak with age and will get cut and bleed. Two wings, then, of the standard sort: half butterfly, half bat; quite useful when … Continue reading
No New Texas
I had a dream our president (a former Texas resident) unleashed an unseen precedent and canceled his world war. Although it was much criticized, he woke one day and realized that bombs exploding in the skies were not what he … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Statements
Tagged activism, daily poems, George W Bush, politics, satire
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