But if our souls are eternal, why do we not then spend more time with things that habituate us to eternity? If our days are short, and the “days are evil,” as St. Paul writes, why do we spend so much time with things that are bad for our souls?
The young pagans band
around the picnic table and scrawl
inky runes into their hands
with cheap pens. Around them,
the world falls, and wonders if
they will...
