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giving up religion 
caveat
emptor 
carpe
diem 
congenital
it's been 
mono
mostly 
the
ancestors came down with it 
poly
in the pipe 
and
pass it round 
like
billy boys 
until
hooray 
to
buggery at least 
and
blows 
dowses
out 
the
ghosts in the fire 
(that's
bush telly for you) 
let's
all mock their religious garments
and
much good may it do 
some
kind of peace could come of gloom 
look
up in the trees and you'll see them 
ecto-mists
are worthy, gone 
like
evidence you've eaten 
and
taken some trouble with 
so
nineteenth century
put
faith in doubt 
and
still you'll know 
a
thing or two 
that
death is after all 
not
a thing you'll feel 
and
there'll be no regret 
Nietzsche
he went mad with it 
and
all those angels 
halo
hats 
saints
for halitosis 
there's
love 
be
golden with it 
(strip
a new world)
a
god of that!
nice
try
or
smiling 
on
your tangled legs 
that
would get you wry 
the
temple girls 
are
all allure 
I
love to jangle bangle 
it's
all of a mind's eye 
bend
the unwilling 
there's
yoga in these bones yet 
I've
seen cats and cows at it 
so
many ways to come 
and
gods in everything 
that's
just common sense 
have
we an understanding? 
we
all need rice 
you
light incense 
I
like a tutelary spirit 
and
daemons -- they're quite personal 
often
run the show 
totem,
possum
bear
this brunt 
to
brew your superstitions 
syncretic's
always best 
the
prophets tend to set alight 
and
have been known to pillage 
what
temptation - the eternal
all
forgiveness, lotsa love 
tread
water 
lie
down with a lion 
growl
stew 
not
so many of them 
little
lamb 
fish
get
pregant with god 
be
blameless
or
point your head the one way 
everyone
does and you're one 
the
oneness is a terrible master 
gives
you that two-party problem 
pepsi
and coke 
woollies
and coles 
manna
sandwich?
I'll
have ambrosia with that
I
was in the cave 
and
I saw that flicker 
truth
bung again 
let's
patch it with 
you'd
never believe 
soon
leads to faith
must
I feather nest? 
long
since they've given up on me 
nothing
to give to gild it 
temple
and spire 
I
took 
the
clock and the orchestra
a
world grew round 
and
sometimes spun 
my
simple head 
all
green for up 
and
cloudsworth 
gone
again 
I
saw to it 
I
saw 
fervour
after
the sky's abolished
still
religion's there 
won't
pay its taxes
fucks
the young 
it
really is a problem 
this
attitude of mine 
I
hear music for a wedding 
and
call the creature stirred my heart 
and
what if there is what there is?
even
if you cannot see
though
could be finding out 
how
disappointing this world is 
and
as I live and breathe 
next
week I will give up polemics 
let
me tell you 
it
was a journey 
but
I'm in the garden now 
 
ReplyDeleteon the religion
it's like a rush hour
people fume at
the mess by the roadside
they look at their polemics
find they're late for dinner
or a lecture on tolerance
god isn't at the wheel
it's the blinkered beast
ReplyDeletegrinds god from
what's fed to the wheel