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[aid] => mick
[title] => Meditation on Rehling's Morality
[time] => 2010-03-20 15:51:02
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[bodytext] => A storm rolls in over the lake I'm sitting on a roof thinking about what i should leave and what i should take In my room there's a picture of Jesus and his crown of thorns This damn humidity has faded the picture Over an abandoned kingdom he mourns When was contemplation last a fixture Who has sacrificed for faith, even if in vein I climb in the window and it starts to rain No one claims to know the circumstance yet in secret we all make plans a crippling shame of a holy lance the drunken tattoo of sacred lands Secular and Uncertain an escalation using moral fame I hear a preacher call my name "a fifty percent tax on human achievement" "will keep you from being called or caught out" "and in the righteous battlement" "Side effects include not understanding what freedoms about" "they must feel the pain to never be caught out" I watch the driving rain Jesus said something but his picture was faded in its frame [comments] => 1 [counter] => 144 [topic] => 73 [informant] => scooterhyme [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => abstract )
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