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The Advice of a Basement Dweller

Contributed by LuciusASeneca on Thursday, 13th January 2005 @ 02:17:31 PM in AEST
Topic: oops

The Advice of a Basement Dweller

Peoples of Christendom!
You who account yourselves destitute
For want of a glistening Paradise,
Of a perfect garden of perpetual purity:
Why, oh faithful children, do you always contrive
To gain a fresh and life-expiring plot of heaven,
By toiling as “good Christians”
In the cement catacombs of civilization –
All horribly illumed by sickly orange light,
That does conflict with the pale blue sky?
See you not two natures at war here?
Christians! People of God, of Allah, of the far stretching infinity,
If enthralled to these conditions you must be,
If your religion demands of you a tithe of your life-blood,
And if this you endure with a gasp and a groan,
Then are you complicit in a deed most grievous –
Heathens you are, in truth; but, worse yet,
You are conspiring to depose, to bring wretchedly low,
Your own goodly and lawful sovereign,
Who alone can draw up treaties equitable
And conciliate you with your brothers, long sundered.
Sinners! forsake your heathen gods!
Follow me – but only insofar as you desire to desert me,
And take to the way of life of your ancestors,
Who followed their reflections in bubbling blue streams
And the rays of light that have intercourse, various and brief,
With the pealing bark of oaks.
Take to this road, comrades,
Before you find yourself fallen in with me:
I who am aware of constant flirtations,
But am now too weak,
Too securely planted in my basement ways,
To venture a rendezvous.

Copyright Â© LuciusASeneca ... [ 2005-01-13 14:17:31]
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Re: The Advice of a Basement Dweller (User Rating: 1 )
by shelby on Tuesday, 18th January 2005 @ 04:59:56 PM AEST
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there are two things Iv learned to avoid commenting on or getting into discussion about here and abroad one religion the other political so I wont comment on the religion aspect of this but will say that the piece in itself is wonderful and nicely written
Michelle

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