BENEATH THE CHURCH
THE DEVIL BREATHES
they welter
and bask
proudly
in the sun of
egalitarianism ―
it has become
the idol of their worship,
and they take
on this egalitarianism
conceptually
not as a mere
principle of politics
or as a
judicial mechanism of regulating equality
but as a
fundamental dictum of existence
and they feed
from it, as from the hand that weaves the tapestry
of our
ecumenically shared morality...
and it is
with this apocalyptic folly
they engage
with the world
in a spirit
of justice and fairness
but fail
however recurringly to realize
the
torrential current of egoism and barbarism
which
undermines it.
slithering,
meandering river-like
like
wormcasts 'neath a basilica
from where
the devil once in a while
makes
himself a fiendish presence
from his
long-protruding catacomba
like a
spider of the ground leering predatingly,
reminding
us yet again of the darkness that we fail to keep at bay,
and
conceives yet again some concept of abstraction
that will
go uncomprehended
but, in
its most toxic and potent form,
would
quiver even the spine of god with the neuropathic pain
no dose
of pregabalin could possibly quell.
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