The Ambassador of the Interior Has a Talking to With the Minister of the Cabinet of Vengeance

God started small At the first showdown between good and evil God didn’t come at anyone like a cowboy God didn’t open with solar flares or asteroids or mass extinction or planetary heat death God didn’t outgun anyone God outmanned them God made man in the face of the beast And in the face of the beast God made —from inside the great and gaping maw while languishing in the hot damp In the face of that great terror God summoned the smallest— adrenaline serotonin hemoglobin oxytocin motes of possibility God started by making— light into land masses sand into vessels preservation as civilization and sometimes God won