The Dialogues of Our Age

We're reading Augustine's "On Free Choice of the Will" in philosophy, and I made a found poem out of his dialogue with Evodius + Lil Jon songs. Thought you might like it!

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Evodius: Please tell me: isn’t God the source of evil?

Lil Jon: Now back,back,back it up
a back,back,back it up

Evodius: From whom do I learn to sin?

Lil Jon: Stupid bitch standing there while I'm drinking my hen.
Steady looking at me, still asking questions.

Augustine: Do you think that learning is a good thing?

Lil Jon: Hoe, don't disrespect it.

Evodius: I think that we come to know only good things through learning. But if we do not come to know evil things, how is it that human beings perform evil acts?

Augustine: You have hit upon the very question that worried me greatly when I was still young, a question that wore me out, drove me into the company of heretics, and knocked me flat on my face.

Lil Jon: Drop dat ass to the floor you scared you, scared you.

Evodius: Adultery, murder, and sacrilege... who could fail to recognize these as evil deeds?

Lil Jon: Twerk something baby work something baby. Pop yo pussy on the pole do yo thang baby!

Augustine: Then perhaps what makes adultery evil is inordinate desire...

Lil Jon: Bend over to the front touch your toes, back dat ass up and down. Get low.

Augustine: All wicked people, just like good people, desire to live without fear. The difference is that the good, in desiring this, turn their love away from things that cannot be possessed without the fear of losing them.

Lil Jon: ...Brand new shoes, brand new tool...

Augustine: I praise and approve your distinction, for although it is tentative and incomplete, it boldly aims at lofty heights.

Lil Jon: I do it so good, I don't need nobody else