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I recently ran into your poem and I have some advice. You want to know his name his name is Jehovah. Use his word to find it, Psalms 83:18. Have a nice day.
Reply: Thanks for your comments. Alex. That poem, "Trick Questions for a Jehovah Witness", like most of the others on my old website, was written as a purely hypothetical piece, and doesn't reflect my personal point of view at all. I have some longtime friends who are of that faith, and I once met a very nice, articulate young man named Chauncey, and I wrote it with him in mind. I was remodeling a home, getting it ready to sell, and worked on the exterior for several weeks. Chauncey stopped by one day and stood below my ladder in his three piece suit in 100 degree weather talking for hours. He came and did the same a couple days a week until I was through, sold the house and moved away. I was very impressed with his kindness and tenacity. I actually wrote the poem out of empathy for Chauncey, knowing that occasionally, perhaps often, he knocked on the wrong door, at least from the perspective of the knockee. I guess I chose to write it from the knockee's perspective as a cheap artistic twist, to make the reader uncertain just where I'm coming from, and to make it provocative. Most of my poems are like that, written from the perpective of a character in the story.
Anyway, thanks for your email and advise. I promise to read the verse you suggested.
Best wishes,
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