Help Me Out Here

This is the strangest thing I’ve seen all day.

Well, that’s not strictly true. But it’s true enough for our purposes. The thing is, I need to think of a religious reason for you to want it.

Uh . . . you . . . want to make some kind of point about creationism and evolution?

See no evil? And so forth?

You . . . uh . . . like the fact that these monkeys come in a 3-pack, kind of like the . . . never mind.

The catalog copy does mention flying nuns.

And — well, heck, maybe you’re just a monkey-worshipper. What do I know? That would make this definitely not the strangest thing I’d seen all day, but if you’re okay with that, we’re good to go.

[Rating: 47 out of 100]

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

Lift My Chin, Lord 

Jennifer Reeser

Lift my chin, Lord,Say to me,“You are not whoYou feared to be,Not Hecate, quite,With howling sound,Torch held…

Letters

Two delightful essays in the March issue, by Nikolas Prassas (“Large Language Poetry,” March 2025) and Gary…

Spring Twilight After Penance 

Sally Thomas

Let’s say you’ve just comeFrom confession. Late sunPours through the budding treesThat mark the brown creek washing Itself…