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Egypt Then
To furthest shores Irish monks trawling for souls set course Thirstier by far for knowledge and lore than word of the lord Fascinated by the law of that older world, its Atlantean splendour Its many mechanical idols and ceaseless batteries flattered the thinkers of that mound-building nation who thought Earth flat Cats given choicest cuts…
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Correlations
Interstellar capacity lacked by those who came after, likely due to natural disaster We trace our aircraft back to Icarus, or Hindu Vimanas from the vast vedas from seven sages How many ages are gone which left no traces, our puzzled fingers trace what’s left and grow vexed Saqqara bird surely soared in imitation of…
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Kinks in the Story
Maps to stars by cultures who never made wheels Steel in the Stone Age layer Electric charges in megaliths, astronomical depth in antient myth Quadrivial meaning, even trivialities contribute to the greasing wheel Killing and healing, hating and loving feelings, all part of some vast concealed Theatrical operation, the cross stations bleached of mystical elements…
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PAPAL EMISSARY
Church of many pedestals hosts many predatory pederasts Rapey papists flock like ants to heathen lands Pounce at any chance to have them renounce names of revered now-deified ancestors They are the Romans to whom all roads lead, colossus larger than ere stood at Rhodes, and theirs is the power of deicide Inside the dome of…
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Hand of the Autarch
Flower of many petals peeled by my hand I remove books from church canons With gauntleted hands I carve glyphs drawing rifts between planets I have ridden strange axes through black places At collapsing dwarves oversaw phasing deaths of galaxies like galleys vast-masted reduced to flotsam by fantasy weapons.
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