How Divine
{An Umbrella Special Feature}


Frederick (Rick) Lord

drifted into a job as a graveyard-shift security guard at New Hampshire College in 1985, and began taking evening classes there, eventually becoming, as NHC evolved to Southern New Hampshire University, the Assistant Dean of Liberal Arts.

A collection of his poetry, What I Made Instead of a Life, was published in 1996. Lord also teaches English and serves as a poetry editor for Amoskeag, SNHU’s literary magazine. He and his wife, Heather, a painter, live in Bow, New Hampshire.


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The Lord’s Program

Our Father [This field should be unique. Please verify.]
Who art in Heaven [Invalid drive path.]
Hallowed be Thy Name [Incorrect password. Resubmit.]

Thy kingdom come [File not found.]
Thy will be done [Limited disk space available.]
On Earth [Copy file y/n?]
As it is in Heaven [Format another disk?]

Give us this day our daily bread [Command not accepted. Abort / Retry / Ignore?]
And forgive us our debts [Warning: data may be truncated or lost.]
As we forgive our debtors [You do not have permission for this transaction.]

And lead us not into temptation [Buffer size too small]
But deliver us from Evil [Fatal disk error.]

For Thine is the kingdom [Possible keyboard failure.]
And the power [Out of memory.]
And the glory forever [Terminal timeout.]

Amen.
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