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Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking them. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you. Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent. But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers, But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness? What of the ******* who hates dancers? What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things? What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers? What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun? They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws. And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows? And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth? But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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On Laws (The Prophet, Chapter 13)
Then a lawyer said, "But what of our Laws, master?" And he answered: You delight in laying down laws, Yet you delight more in breaking them. Like children playing by the ocean who build sand-towers with constancy and then destroy them with laughter. But while you build your sand-towers the ocean brings more sand to the shore, And when you destroy them, the ocean laughs with you. Verily the ocean laughs always with the innocent. But what of those to whom life is not an ocean, and man-made laws are not sand-towers, But to whom life is a rock, and the law a chisel with which they would carve it in their own likeness? What of the ******* who hates dancers? What of the ox who loves his yoke and deems the elk and deer of the forest stray and vagrant things? What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless? And of him who comes early to the wedding-feast, and when over-fed and tired goes his way saying that all feasts are violation and all feasters law-breakers? What shall I say of these save that they too stand in the sunlight, but with their backs to the sun? They see only their shadows, and their shadows are their laws. And what is the sun to them but a caster of shadows? And what is it to acknowledge the laws but to stoop down and trace their shadows upon the earth? But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
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The insane live forever, lust lawlessly over all things conceived fascinating to the validity and gluttony of the mind. Brain feasters we live to strive, exist to be, all things so mundane to our gluttony, we hunger for something on border lines, the limits of human mumbling over morality. Cease your everest squirming, your infantile homage bearing, you find so viscous an evil, so vile a fiend in us the broken chains. Godless we sing the marching banter of forlorn free will, we have no conscience to bear, no after thought found alive anywhere. The psychopath lurches out about child like smiles, lives a second agenda basis before any infant experiments sin upon innocence. Born divine this mutant knows free will without restriction, closer to a limitless ever enveloping power than any mortal. Breed me a man slewing monster, a shape shifting skeleton reaper, those that fear this untouchable being, this godless singularity, fear the very will we wish to contort, constrain, control, but a demon answers only to that of it’s own greed, no man may quiet its roaring, its heartless contortioning. It’s an angel without a heart beat, a cadaver with a taste for its own flesh, make me a monster manufactured under every roof, we’ve got too much human to feel.
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Aug 28, 2011
Aug 28, 2011 at 12:29 AM UTC
Godless Heredity
beard-red explorers pillaging-horror practitioners tribal-family groups insurgent-nomadic roots that trailed wave-rammers across never-ending spans, continuously-toilfully matters not the demands women and men side by each beastly-feasters no table safe stand up for yourself or be a weak-waif in the bloodshot soul-panes, fierce pagan-purveyors by rites despised-womanizers siege-setters monk-murderers a blood-spilling bee treasure trove crash n’carry Thor had his hammer every wave-rammer had an oar for every pair of life-stained hands, the stains were borrowed and the very life-drained out of others blood-smitten berserkers, heart-stoppers and yet discoverer’s children wandering wet-wilderness found a Stormy-Stop, a few actually, and one be Newfoundland may-haps they settled in peace.
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Apr 20, 2016
Apr 20, 2016 at 9:02 PM UTC
Family-first a tale-Twisted
You know you are wrong when you bed me in our own litter and The Feaster raises its head to feed our relations with its attention We persist and you're having none of my boring objections This bed has become a field of mammal ply and spell craft We sign out glyphs in energies and positionings In The Feasters eyes we have meaning we are positive we glow for it Feathers from air we tap out with a shared vocal hark ..in crash the mind ; plan flown on an excercise of oblivion Criminal tide rising to feel upon the doggy moon When The Love has only known The Night Time with little illumination the revealed is a frightful thing ; a Medicine and a Leviathan
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Mar 23, 2019
Mar 23, 2019 at 7:57 PM UTC
Tax Medicine / Pax Leviathan
Flesh feasters finds fish framed for food Thrills for the gills that are dead in his feud You enter my cavern swords clang, clash, corrupt Death is my name and my answers are abrupt My waning in this river of endless sorrow Unknown are the fates of heroes from tomorrow Though the bones of long dead dreams hide my hold Though the endless rush is unceasingly bold I smite these wanderers casting sickness and famine This sorrow thickens among the ill fate fallen My time will come and he, the one chosen will arrive My will will fail and his sword will thrive
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May 31, 2017
May 31, 2017 at 11:06 PM UTC
Endless Waves of the Hopeful
This loaf I bake was once golden wheat which harvested, threshed then ground made flour from ripened ears of blessing. This cheese I churn was once milky froth which with countless turning first creamed then set to hardened thickness of clotted health. This wine I drink was once fruity grape which trodden made from flesh musty liquid that time changed to nectar-rich pleasure. This thanks I give was once humbly said as harvest custom so feasters could not forget that abundance appears when heads bend.
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 6:01 AM UTC
Once.