Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Circling the Drain, Zion, 18 October 2017

Anyone who uses antiquity to criticize
The present shall be executed. Anyone
Who thinks the present is superior
To antiquity shall be executed.
I am here! I am here! cried the man trapped
For six days under a manhole cover
In Houston after the hurricane. Anyone
Who uses antiquity to criticize the present
Shall be executed. Ma Ferguson personally
Saw to it that evolution was eliminated
From the Texas school books. Anyone
Who thinks the present is superior
To antiquity shall be executed. The museum
Is built to awe from the first moment visitors
Pass through forty-foot, two-and-a-half-ton
Bronze doors showing the text of Genesis 1
Backwards and in Latin. Anyone who thinks
They are superior shall be executed. Genetic
Evidence suggests a variant for light skin
Found in both Europeans and the San arose
Roughly nine hundred thousand years ago.
Anyone who uses antiquity shall be
Executed. Anyone, the story ends, anyone.

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