You can’t get baptized in ice…
instructions:
Spit upon love and
praise the upraising of walls
Scoff at peace-loving pronouncements and
seek conflict at every turn
Take a long piss on social advancement and
hog-tie your community to ancestral wrongs
Treat symbols of divinity as your personal playthings and
the bowels of the earth as sacred treasure
Intensify the flames of hatred in the village and
retreat to “safe” distances
Glorify the machine, use human ingenuity to fertilize the machine and
denigrate the human form
Stomp out every flicker of mystery, wonder, and beauty and
foster obedience to the whims of plutocrats
Yet, the Sun lives
Its enduring rays are never outworn
Its claim on the earth shall never expire
Its rhythm and melodies for the ears that heareth
whisper: “Never abandoned.”