Have you ever messed around with a Ouija board? If you have, either it has worked for you, in which case you probably either had a lof of fun or were scared shitless, or it didn't work for you, in which case you probably walked away from it convinced that it was a load of crap. Well, let my tell you... from my experience, it is DEFINITELY not a load of crap.

For anyone not familiar with what a Ouija board is and how it works, it's this: A rectangular board with the alphabet printed on it in big letters, usually a row from A to M placed right above another from from N to Z. In the upper left hand corner, 'YES' is printed, and in the upper right hand corner, 'NO' is printed. At the bottom, 'GOODBYE' is printed. There is also a row of numbers at the bottom, 0-9. Two people place their hands on the 'planchette', or pointer, which rests on the board. The pointer is used to spell out words with the letters. The whole idea is to let the pointer move by itself, and trust me, with a little patience, it does. Nobody really knows how or why a ouija board works; some say it's spirits, others say it's just the subconscious moving the pointer, much like automatic writing (another interesting subject). Me, I just don't know. Suffice to say that it's fascinating. So now that that's explained...

Back in '92, a friend of mine (Erica) and I used to play with one a lot. For some reason, it always worked well when we were using it. We had a lot of interesting conversations with it, far too numerous for me even to remember, with a lot of different 'entities'. Some of them even gave us names. The most interesting one wrote some poems for us. The name he went by was NAP. Don't ask me what that means, if it even means anything... it's just what he went by. The following poems were spelled out, letter by letter, by NAP. When he was finished with one word, he would signal us by moving the planchette to the upper left corner. When he wanted us to start a new line, he would signal us by moving the planchette to the upper right corner. It all happened VERY fast. Thus these poems were written:


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