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False Prophets


What proclaims

to save our souls

is killing its believers 

Religion worse

than nuclear war …

born again deceivers

 

Breaking every

moral creed

stealing zero-sum

Ashes left to burn

and rot

—Yahweh on the run

 

(The New Room: January, 2023)

 

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