The moon is nothing

But a circumambulatory aphrodisiac

Divinely subsidized to provoke the world

Into a rising birth rate.

- Christopher Fry

The Lady's Not for Burning

From my notebooks, April 5, 1996

Although the heavenly will may work in mysterious ways, these do not apparently include the invisible hand of the free market.

The divinity may, however, be a Malthusian.