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Forrest Moon
by Ariel Beller

"In one town 350 people died in
that tornado. Killed every one of em.
You seen it. A little bitty town. See?
That's what the Lord does. The
Devil wouldn't have saved one of em. He
was an angel in Heaven and the Lord
gave him a world of his own. He gave
him Hell."

";and we played together, me and Roy
when we were kids. And I had a strychnine
potato - mama did it to kill the rabbits - got me
instead. And Roy said, You ate that potato?
I said, Yah, about 30 minutes ago.
He said, well you should be dead.
And I said, Maybe I am.
And I was in heaven and the Lord
said, Forrest, I can't use you here.
I said, Lord, I'm sorry your head fell off.
He said, I don't care. I'll send you back to Earth
and you'll do my will not Man's will.
So I rented a room, me and Joey did.
And I took off because Jackie was
cussin' at me. Back to California.
Here, look at this letter she sent me,

Dear Forrest,

I hope you are well and doing
OK. This is the second card I'm
mailing to you. Today is a beautiful
day complete with robins chirping-
Petie would have enjoyed it.
I have all the windows open and the
newspapers flew all over the kitchen.
Well I guess I'll have a cup of coffee
with Bruno. Remember when the 3 of
us used to drink coffee together?

Then he took the letter away.

"I'm just an innkeeper for the Lord,
that's all I am."

 

 

 

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