A Prayer to Ye Gods

O Karma, Dharma, pudding and pie,

gimme a break before I die:

grant me wisdom, will and wit,

purity, probity, pluck & grit.

Trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind

gimme great abs & a steel-trap mind,

and forgive, Ye Gods,

some humble advice –

these little blessings would suffice

to beget an earthly paradise:

make the bad people good –

and the good people true;

and before our world

goes over the brink,

teach the government how to think.

by Philip Appleman