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A Proclamation to Our Lord (Free verse) by Joe-joe

What is truly important is now clear to me. Though without sight, I have made way to this day, achieving more than I ever had realized. Through so much senselessness and so much sorrow, I have triumphed --- for I now see my life as it truly is, and know that what I was had to be and that what I am becoming, will be most pleasing in your sight.

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26-Apr-04/7:59 AM

"It pleases the Master that even the house-slaves and the field-slaves obey his edicts concerning the plums. Some day, perhaps, the dribblings which have touched his plummy lips will be gathered by those wretched souls and fought over in the Quarter unto the last sweet giblet. He has taught them to hope for Heav'n, and to fear the Foreman's cat-o-nine. But the enemy of the Master is himself, in that he chooses not to see what is obvious, and to deny the aboriginal trickery of the crafty slaves. He will suffer the price of his self-imposed blindness... For Big John shall cease to crouch only after he has stood beside the Master's bed in the dark and tasted the plums of the foolish Master..."

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