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Our Lord's Prayer

Our father who art not in heaven... Six-pack birth of poverty and greed, looking up with clasped hands for wants. Admit one, admit all.  Thieves of innocence. Hollow be thy name... Hushed voices, 15 cent pamphlets of salvation, fire spat sodomy in a white paper cup, drink it up and inebriate the soul. Thy kingdom came, we were all lame... Forgiveness sold to the highest bidder, sinful saints of bourbon, holy and revered. Pass the collection to the light, oh faithful. On Earth as it is not in heaven... Cross-bore on a servant's sore back, sacrilegious apostles decaying under icons, Sunday TV redemption of God's plan. Give us this day our daily rot... Gold-plated asphyxiated prophet of ignorance, preaching false divinity on a pulpit of bile, wormhole dug into heretic dogma statues. Forgive us our trespasses, murders, rapes, molestations... Altars of copulation and recycled condoms, sermons of eternal stigma for the devote, corrupt morals taken home in a plastic bag. As we hate those that trespass against us... Seven sins sweep under the carpet and forgot, left over cigarette butts and bottles of fallen angels, tarnished halos on lop-sided heads. Lead us into temptation... Life goals of hypocrisy and righteous, hang the deviant, burn the books in Hell, glimmering myopic sight spewing disgust. Deliver us unto evil... Light a candle, pay at the counter, pray to idles of blood and macabre, fragile child's eyes taste it with curiosity. In the name of who? amen. Amen.

Copyright © September 2001 avery j espinoza

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