Something will emerge from the verbal tea leaves -- dark,
intestines in a new light haruspicated,
my mouth in awe, and blue eyes fully dilated,
some abstract expression of emerging Cain's mark.
Climate change, nuclear war, democracy's end;
and the lesser-of-two-evil Sophie's choices
every four years; and shrill empty right-wing voices
rolling in the barrel, telling us all to bend.
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For this is a tale of two exiles, (man, rib) and beast,
from Eden and Heaven, respectively. Satan,
God's arrogant fave defenestrated, hatin'
the Old Man's work, relocated to Eden's east.
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Yes, the Plan has gone wrong, gone bad, ugly, gory.
F*ck it. It was a stupid origin story.
