Jesting Angels

Jesting Angels
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"All of us ought to be ready to laugh at ourselves," wrote theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, «because all of us are a little funny in our foibles, conceits, and pretensions.» Yes, to a greater or lesser extent, we all belong to Hypocrites Anonymous. Laughter helps us to preserve sanity in a crazed world; provides the lubrication we so desperately need to deal with irritating people and situations. Furthermore, it accents our need for humility by pricking the balloons of vain pretension.
These vivid poems are thick with allusions to literature, theology, spirituality, history, and legend. They range from sentimental impressions of the Iowa State Fair to a fantasy visit to All Saint's Night in Dublin; from musings on the extinct dodo to a whimsical take on the pranks mischievous angels play; from a litany of the likely suspects in a murder mystery to a beatnik's view of the ascension.
In life, no doubt we will become the butt of many well-deserved jokes. As Don Quixote's sidekick, Sancho Panza, once acknowledged, «Master, I confess that all I need to be a complete ass is a tail.» Laughter, then becomes, in the words of Niebuhr, «a vestibule to the temple of confession.»

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Ken Bazyn. Jesting Angels

Table of Contents

Preface. Proof Positive

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Laughing Your Way to Heaven

Surprise

Just Suppose—

I wish I were a soap bubble

Microbes

Weeds

Fall Festival

the pitter patter of platitudes

The Circus

The Iowa State Fair

Old Swalm’s Store

All Saints’ Night

To Collar a Leprechaun

Pluto’s Realm

Orchestral Romance

Love’s Investor

What Can I Offer?

Baby’s Playpen

Baby—Me?

In the Womb

Backfloatin’

Summer Heat

A Modern Mother Goose

The Onrushing Yellow Tide

The Dodo

Life Is in the Blood

Indifference

Bait

Whodunit?

Are There Universes?

The World of a Raindrop

Grammar

I Envy You, Montaigne

The Charlatan

Caveat Emptor

Delicate Things

God’s Mercy

Thank you, God

If the Kingdom Comes

Since Earth Has Cooled

A Desert Father

The Reliquary

Jesting Angels

The Geneva Watchmaker

Art Thou the One?

The Recumbent Christ

Walter Mitty Sin

Hustling Toward Jerusalem

A Sunday School Lesson

A New Orleans Funeral

A Beatnik View of the Ascension

The Peaceable Kingdom

Recommended Resources on Humor and Christianity

Works Cited

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God’s Lighter Side

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4. Hobbes, Leviathan, 38.

5. Bergson, “Laughter,” 105.

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