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Religious Slaughter (Free verse) by Beyond_Dreams

An apostle of literature sleeps eyes closed; dreaming of water ways with a splash of crimson delight. His eyes flutter; awakened to falling Abremon, A tumulus ocean branches out grasping the searing rays; ode to the sun. Silver riches shine beneath the seas of parallel complexes; a skull sits bastardized, fallen from the heat. But it's not the skull of the trying hand reaching towards a goal. Fallen from grace with scorched wings; abandoned by the ocean breeze. Servants slaughter sheep to the howling of the moon strips of wool starlings moving as they fall. Beneath the iridescent river skies. The air is full and heavy. Icarus would be proud. A star lit sparkled sky outlined in feathers and wax; one for religion dies. Prayers of Agnostic combated Christian scrap yard metal wreckages; tapping on the window to the soul, the religious caucus pendulum swaying to and fro...

zodiac 22-Dec-04/5:31 AM
I disagree. Secularism will be victorious, but only because secularism's SO FUCKING COOL. Take, for example, the internet cafe I'm sitting in now, where ten out of ten Islams are currently viewing different kinds of American hardcore porn. The appearance of an Arab-Western culture war (which is really big here, incidentally, despite porn-viewing) is bound to lead to some reactionary fundamentalism.

In fact, it apparently already is. Twenty years ago, something like a tenth of the Muslim women in Jordan covered their heads. Today it's nine-tenths. Even given that part of that is the result of Jordanians returning from the Gulf after the first Gulf War, that's still a pretty big shift to the right. I figure it'll be followed by an even bigger slide to the left within a few years, provided the Middle East isn't simply swallowed by the earth for its colossal dimness, like it should be. I mean, Western Culture FUCKING RULES, am I right??!? IT'S A FUCKING STEAMROLLER, MAN!!!!




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