The Culture War

The revivalist
wins souls wonderfully for
The Lord, The Most High.

The atheist wins
bodies wonderfully for
humankind's own sake.

This bloodless war of
words, found mostly on printed
leafs, is the essence

of how illusion
can afflict the psychic self
more than physical

ailments can afflict
body parts. Moving pieces
can retain semblance

of true functioning.
God or no god, first cause or
infinite cycle

of known or unknown
fore-cause and unknowable
aftereffects, We,

the kind bipedal,
are suffering with psychic
poisoning, a deep

toxicity that
may never, ever be purg'd
like asbestos lung.

Those with the power
have cued us to be beings
that are subversive,

prone to violence,
prone to notions that corrupt
us up utterly.

Pre-programmed to be
social, prone to communal
attitudes and mores,

being sociable
is the foundation for our
biological

madness. Without it,
we become beasts blithering
about like kochia.

Antidotes given
have come and gone. So, so much
becomes new poison.

This war between the
extremes is only a cue
to commit more sin.

Culture divides us,
but the bodies unite us,
the real starting point!

Reviews

[NightShade]

That you can think metrically is amazing, in and of itself. The word "purged" and others with the same suffix may produce a syllabic problem for those who get what you are doing with this book. So far, I can tell you, that this is one hell of a read. The concept alone, is a surefire seller.

[Rene Velez]

A cure for sure Ken, I embrace everything everyone has to offer, I wasn't like that before, but I've grown, two sides of a coin finding equal balance, see i told you it was hard not to. LOL