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Created on: February 14, 2011
A strong belief in war's nobility
The detritus of war obliterates.
Conversion's version of reality
Puts pox-apostasy on human fates.
This incredulity in modern man
Demands a disambiguation creed,
Rejecting Darwin's degradated plan
Adherents blindly swear they bleed to need.
A glory-glitch in cat-scanned brains is lit
As cluttered gutter self-love moves aside
And man is found profoundly now unfit
To claim his crown of darkly tarnished pride.
Bombastic bones of bitterness still sing
A zealot's sick and twisted tale of grace,
Where incoherency is right-wing bling
All broken-token ditto-heads embrace.
Author Notes
detritus - obliterated particles of organic/inorganic
matter transformed to that state by explosives designed
to intentionally create just that; detritus
pox - both the sores of and general nomenclature for the
plague.
apostasy - separation from 'found' theologic law or
often applied to rejection of doctrinal absolutes whether
religious or secular.
disambiguation - used here it means dissecting the complex
whole to comprehend and simplify its parts tben reanimate
its parts back into a more simple whole.
bling - hip-hop idiom meaning fancy, gem-like, jewlery,
treasure, collective term for attitude and all one's
fancy stuff.
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