Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readMay 1, 2023

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A senryu I wrote last year

"Goosebump raising surge

kinetic energy says

God present for all"

Note: “present” is a double entendre

This is also relevant to your "If you do not believe in the Devine, it believes in you," as you will now see as I repeat the anecdote from my life about which I wrote that poem:

"In 1996, during my first and mostly forgotten foray into the 12-Stepverse, the rehab took us to a “meeting.” The speaker told the story of his suicidal ideation. He had terrible insomnia along with alcoholism. He would stay up nights, drinking in his basement, planning his family-annihilation suicide. He spent many a night meticulously planning for and rigging the boiler to explode to take out himself, his wife, and his children as his family slept. Then, the night he was ready to pull the switch, he fell asleep. At that moment of listening to him tell that story, I felt a follicle exciting, hair-raising surge of energy. For the first time, I felt the presence of God in my life. A presence I later forgot about for too long, but God never forgot about me." [emphasis added]

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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