Someone calling himself James Ensor posted this on Usenet Jan 1 2001, It is much better than my feeble attempts at poetry.
Dichotomy #1: The Real James Ensor painted many Christian Images. Strangely enough, most experts believe that his images of the Christ were self-portraits.
Dichotomy #2: I am posting it on a server at the Vincentian University of DePaul.
I do not need a god. No greater powr exists to tell me how to think, and help us through life's twists and turns. The tests we all must face from day to day, we plow through them alone to make the world better for each and every one. I do not need a god. My strength comes from within my steeled heart and mind. I'm 'lone responsible. A fool's attempt to find a goat to hang his faults upon leads others to pretend to know the same, A hidden entity for his mistakes he blames. My strength comes from within. Integrity and truth are in this life of mine. Performing in my name I 'lone commit my crimes and goodness. Need no Eth- ics from on high to tell me right from wrong; to find the dif'rence look inside, for guide me does my mind. Integrity and truth. At death I do depart this world of lies and pain. Reward and trial I must find before I am lain to rest. No one is raised, no one is damned, instead we all sleep. Unconfessed sins, Honor unmaintained. Our acts left to attest. At death I do depart.