we are enchained by all we renounce

and every holy joe is just another snake-oil salesman


exhorting us to rise and repent

and amend our wicked ways


but our wicked ways are natural

and he helps to enchain us


there is no other road that this

on this human-ruined earth of Maker's making


travel it with fingers

stuffed in your ears


that you'll hear the silent answer

to your questing under the roar of blood...



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