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By Jack Joseph Smith
Thus Far
If God sends me to hell
That does not mean
that I am going
to go to work
for Satim
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Hell is answered with a labor refusal: punishment may come, but service does not automatically pass to Satim.
The page is compact and wry. Divine judgment is separated from allegiance, so even in damnation the speaker keeps a last form of independence. Its humor works because it imagines hell as a workplace one can still refuse.
Six lines of stubborn theology. If God sends me to hell, that still doesn't obligate me to go to work for Satim. The misspelled devil somehow makes the refusal more real — the speaker has thought about this arrangement carefully and declined.