It was a capital offence <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To pick up scattered grains of corn <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My mother was executed <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For such a ghastly crime of greed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I survived those terrible years <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many died but I ate the leftover rats rotting <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And drank the acid waters <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the blank putrid sewers
I am now a minor official in charge of the rabid dogs <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which bring a sort of bleak peace to the empty streets <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet things often go wrong when these dogs escape <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I once had to burn down a seminary full of young priests <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the dogs entered the building unlocked <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their wretched hollow screams still haunt me <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The reality destroyed them<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As they roasted in their own body fat<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There was no caring God <\/p>\n\n\n\n
To rescue these doomed men <\/p>\n\n\n\n
COLLATERAL DAMAGE I stamped COLLATERAL DAMAGE<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On a million sheets of rice paper which I later consumed <\/p>\n\n\n\n
NO TRACE NO RECORDS NO RECORDS NO TRACE <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That was the official party line
Listen not to the rumours and lies
We are watching you closely<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have hidden my past but I still thirst for a revenge so awful <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That I cannot think about it with any reason in this darkness <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But God still talks to me in my deep timeless dreams <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is hope but do I understand what is required of me <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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