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Steam Train

steam train is coming
at full spead, clickity clack
on time to nowhere

steam train before me
can the engineer see me
I wave my arms, stop!

steam train overhead
my screams masked by the rumble
I lie on tracks

steam train on its way
through the dark shadowed valley
running off the tracks

steam train far away
I tried so hard to stop it
But flesh can’t beat [...]

For My Religious Friends

An Open Letter To My Religious Friends:

To All You Believers:

I am not a religious person. I am an agnostic. I neither deny nor accept belief in an anthropromorphic deity who influences the day to day affairs of mortal human beings.

This does not by definition mean I think less of my friends who find comfort and [...]

Susie Explains Evolution

This is Susie Neunmalklug – also known as Susie Smartypants. In German, her name means “Nine Times Clever”. Susie is the character in a children’s book on Evolution by Michael Schmidt-Salomon and Helge Nyncke. See the link for more information.

Here, Susie gives us an explanation of her experience challenging her teacher Mr. Hemplemann’s explanation of [...]

On Dying And Everlasting Life

I’ve given a fair amount of thought to death.

It isn’t something I talk to other people about very often, death, so I can’t say I really know very much about what other people think. It does seem to me that there is a lot of denial. Religion attempts to soothe our worried minds with a [...]