God lead us NOT into a flawed ontology 
But deliver us from that nonexistent epistemological righteousness that was formed in
Europe and fermented on TV

Is this broken glass or diamonds?
The vandal wonders at the plunder.
The world  we inhabit has no death
A bullet to the chest
Yields instant resurrection 
On the video console

Why are the shop keepers cowering ?
This is just
to reset the game
They don’t own all this unconsumed liquor 
Emptying from the shelves 
Their great great grandparents couldn’t have been enslaved
They certainly were robber barons 
Slaughtering innocents 
This is reparations 

This is the next side show
Never needed life saving drugs 
any way
Just enjoy this moment 

This is the glass breaking of freedom 
The rhinestones of the republic 

Tires screeching return to 
the over priced apartment 
Bright self realized future 
The last pharmacy in the changing city
Plundered 
In a OxyContin haze
Older gang bosses, the fences
in distant corporate suburbs
   satisfied 
White flags of compassion 
Waving in the fetid smoky air
with booster shot compliance 

To be “free and equal “ “a man”
A construct of western philosophy 
Achieved by all humans,
only in Death

What would pretend Jesus do with this Gollum’s paradise?

If shot in this next drive-by,
By some member of the
Well regulated militia 
Or impaled on the pointy tip of
Le Sacré Couer 
Or fried by some vengeful God’s thunderbolt 
Why should I not pray to return as 
a mighty oak tree 
as this winter’s scorching return approaches?
The Silicon Valley billionaires
assure us, this is all
just an eleven dimensional 
Simulation 
Conjured by Einstein’s Rechnenpferde
His calculating horses have determine that
Shadows can move faster than light

Scot Gresham-Lancaster – Brunswick, ME 10/7/23