About the Author
Greg Boyd is the editor of Asylum Arts and is the author of Water and Power, Sacred Hearts, and Carnival Aptitude. He is also the editor of the literary magazine Asylum.
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I wake up horny. God's punishing me again, testing my endurance, so I fall to my knees and pray for strength. But evil thoughts course through my mind like a polluted stream. I try my best to purify them. I am chlorine, lava soap. I bubble and foam, but in the end it happens again anyway. It's always the same. My soul screams at the exact moment of my body's release. It's a righteous voice that wells up inside me, a deep and hoary voice that comes out of the wilderness and is filled with the indignation of the ages. It inspires me in a kind of holy terror and afterwards I shake for a good five minutes.
