Palm Sunday, Welcome to the Monkey House

by Kurt Jr. Vonnegut

  " 'Judas, don't worry about it. There will still be plenty of poor people left long after I'm gone.'

  "Shall I regarble it for you? The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me.'

  "My own translation does no violence to the words in the Bible. I have changed their order some, not merely to make them into the joke the situation calls for, but to harmonize them, too, with the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount suggests a mercifulness that can never waver or fade.

  "This has no doubt been a silly sermon. I am sure you do not mind. People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

  "I thank you for your sweetly faked attention."

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