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Original poem reprinted online here: "Editing Job " by Carl Dennis Originally read: February 12, 2013 More information about the Poet: Carl Dennis From the title, the poem works a great deal with humor and puns.  This poem sets up a sense of wit to it in multiple levels: language, irony, perspective.  I think I'll start from back to front on this one.  Past me wrote this about the perspective, "Editor takes on a 'god-like' voice over biblical text, further into the poem the speaker becomes more vested in the text."  Furthermore, the tone of the poem is quite humorous when the speaker initially takes on the God voice, On top of this, I would like to add that further  into the poem the character of God has less and less emotional attachment to Job and just "replenishes Job possessions."  Until finally at the end the speaker turns the humor into cynicism. The irony in the poem is what past me wrote about at the end of the poem, "The end is i...