Osler's Razor

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I think that the book of Lamentations is perhaps one of the more under-rated books in the Bible. It is short and simple, lamenting the fall of Jerusalem to the Chaldeans about 586 BC. The tragic tone of the book is striking, even as faith is maintained. Some of the descriptions presage the tragedies of our own time (and all the times before). The opening passage, for example, elegantly describes Detroit:

How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become,
She that was great among the nations.

There probably is a time for lamentation, for some bit of anguish from within or without. This Friday, let's go there. A friend, a parent, a pet who is gone, the loss of a love or some hope. Perhaps it is just a bit of the good blues; that's fine.

Here is mine (which is also about Detroit):

These dry bits of ash
Lofted by autumn winds to
The grey of Her sky.

Now it is your turn...