"it was," the Disembodied Voice proclaimed
so we all knew whatever followed must be true
"the first successful transference
of a madness to a god"
the press conference went silent
before pandemonium broke out
two dozen questions hurled at once
at the unoccupied podium
and the security guards began to clear the room
it must have been a catching thing though
Mars declared for sociopathy
Venus for nymphomania
there was no apparent change in behavior
for Loki or for Coyote
Zeus selected megalomania
Apollo narcissism
until all the good ones had been used up
and Jupiter and Odin wondered out loud
if the lesser madnesses needed to be assigned
perhaps to the lesser gods
they needn't have worried though
all the madnesses soon were gone
and there was the almost to be expected grumbling
about the arbitrariness of the selections
many were sure they could have parceled them out
more appropriately than free choice had
the world, meanwhile, carried on
pretty much like it always had
including that certain Brahmin worried out loud
when the new maladies would strike
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