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Mad Man with a Weapon

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With a bible in one hand, a gun in the other,
The vagabond sought a red devil to smother.
Sipping moonlight like moonshine, and drunk out of his mind,
He stunk of reality, redefined and refined.

With good scotch on his tongue, and the good book in his blood,
He ripped at the skies and clawed through the mud
O'er many a hill and a corpse of good men
He found only sin in each quick second spent.

With a bible in one hand, a gun in the other,
The madman could tell not the devil from brother.
Cigarette Paid DebtsA roadside dime-dancer, porcelain skinned,
Donned a skirt far to short and lay stinking of gin;
Her hair, chopped and inked,was knotted and greased,
Living on the penniless men of the streets,
Looking to woo an old wealthy escort
To make up for lost time and late child support.
And the slick-back black daddies, they came and they went,
Paying for bittersweet dances with stale cigarettes,
And the winds roared and breathed, kicking up the dust
Around the girl with no love, but plenty of lust.
The Rulers of the SeasonsAphrodite, my dearest epitome of springtime,
Quaffing flowery flares as your dark storm clouds climb
Selfish vanities flooding April's chromaticity out
Ere Apollo's hideous glare shines your May bleached with drought
The golden summer that Ra mercilessly allows
Oppressing heat beats the precious sweat off of your brow
For every child caught giggling with sunlight in their lungs
Another meets black Anubis with thirst on their tongues
As Morigan's autumn, swift as the crow flies
Allowing leaves to stop their begging to die
Knowing change is welcome, killing all she holds dear
Until even Bile`'s cold grasp starts shaking with fear
Loki breathes laughter with a wintery chill
Freezing time with a blanket and life going still
His mischievous snowflakes dancing o'er the land
Until they are melted by Freyja’s impassioned hand
The Penny JesterHere we see, the king of fools,
the champion of minimum wage,
His jester's hat defeated twinkles
echo in his greasy cage
A smile of 99 cent sequins
is pasted on his cross-stitched lips;
Dancing gaily with eviction slips
and a silken pouch of pennied tips.


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Gosaku's avatar
Well, fuck. This is awesome.
(I often find too much solace in sadness and confliction, and it's because it's all so dramatic. I say this because I think my first two sentences needed some justification.)
The fog of religion and the two ideals translated from love and hate are far too confusing. There's this constant manipulation that the Devil holds, and it can drive you mad: figuring out whether the word of God is compelling you or the treachery of Satan. Only God would know about anything akin to fate, so how are we to know which will is good and which is bad? This is why--as I'm sure you've guessed--I like this so much.