Belshazzar's Feast ~ Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone gods
overturn triumph for tragedy, tread
lightly or incur the wrath of a snake
determined to win at all costs, takes guts

slithering in oozing cesspools, quicksand
imagines waiting long to catch a trout
lessons to learn, liquid fire, skulk and sneak
violence and vermin, disease, a dose
enigmatic, a gift not to rescind
revel in agreement, law and order

brighten dim bulbs, hone dull Damascus blades
royal vermilion mercurial hors d'œuvres
obedient as daft domestic knaves
nobodies playing God with loaded dice
zilch, nihil ex nihilo, causation
excludes Creation as Baruch HaShem

ideology begs antinomies
rock solid evidence or castration
on the assumption the oil was virgin
nothing for Mr. Zilch, all is a sham

work out who got paid, follow the monies
order and affix mezuzot to bless
observant followers of valkyrie
dubious arguments make big money

androids and drones duel at twenty paces
nothing bleeding hearted Pushkin, moony
deliberately blind to empty pages

suffer the murdered children lost to bliss
terrible the hand of blasphemy writes
obey the name, blessed be, He who reigns
no one reads a word to repeat in song
enter the Temple destroyed by such wrath

gods are multifarious, Mustapha
object to argument, reason does wrong
domestic and foreign policy psalms
silence crushes Kermes missed, looked over

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