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Blind Cronus

Fire, frozen in apple’s sweet shape, From promethean serpent it was sent. A rite of passage from “mere ape”; Extended forehead was Eve’s punishment. We are not Abel; we are Cain. Brother rots in Neandertal. Over all of Gaia we now reign. Child monarch of mother thrall. Stumbling from Darwin’s crude workshop, We see a [...]

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Song

In the old days, before the mother was found When the cold earth waited patiently for spring Delicate creatures did scuttle across the ground And fly on fragile, feathered wing Ever vigilant of a suden, cruel end. In the old days, before the harmony came When the world drifted slowly through the sky The birds [...]

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