Showing posts with label End of the World. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

The Last Dispensation


The Last Dispensation

Bespoke dust--a rib removed
and Adam choked on paradise
as Eve fell from favor; eyes open.

Knowledge is death.

The will of man confounded
and common speech confused
by an angry god; alas Shinar.

Pride cometh.

The law was torn in two
like the temple curtain
at the last exhale; my God.

It is finished.

Two thousand years of grace
covered the lower ground
of man’s last temple; Manhattan.

Allah Akbar.

A Mayan switch waits patiently,
oblivious to God, Babel and Allah,
to laws, grace and man; the dust calls

SMG