I'm not cut out From the cloth Of the beggar No morally purer Than drunken bootleggers Don't claim to be better Than junkies And thieves And in fact Often share In their proclivities When my conscience agrees To be righteously wrong For the sake Of forsaken Virtues, all along I have known to be merely In theory No more Than the voice In the back of my head I ignore When imploring me to Ask it What would God do? Perhaps suffer the many And save but a few Of the most loyal supplicants Bowing to none of it Proving the makers Who made us Are done with it