illustration: LIVING ON A PRAYER from The Saint Series

GOD SONG I heard God sing to me one morning from a perch outside my window like some strange yellow bird from the dirty shores of Galilee said He was running low on carpenters and the such and He was wondering if maybe I might be willing to learn the trade and build myself a boat or something "I don't know nothin about making no religious furniture" I sez as if Moses was the last one to put the tools away And God cried out Think Feel Grow and the words surrounded me like electric mirrors that exposed my soul and pounded my weak flesh with overweight hammers until they had killed the giant rat that was nesting in my skull and as its carcass was at last removed I could hear gentle words saying Row Row