from this week in October 2014 (I was 69)
We rely on hypocrisy to save the world
Were all who declare
devotion actually practitioners
we’d have a chaos of
justified warfare
to establish one theocracy
or another
It is uncivilized to
sanction brutality
except in the name of
business
We leave the butchery to
the ignorant and the poor
who best interpret
canonical law in pictures
or metaphor lurid enough to
be thought literal
Wealthy nations have their
armies
They sell their enemies
outmoded weapons
so instead the foes make
missiles of themselves
and believe the fables of
celestial bliss
that promise forbidden
fruits of the un-ripened mind
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