blaspheme

 

and the indoctrination begins

first with the children held

up to us as examples of 

perfection reading from school

papers on subjects so biblical they

grow beards and sit on mountain

tops as they expound parents and

grandparents transcend and circle

patting tiny grey heads nodding

to us in pleasure assuring

safety and all of us celebrate and

some of us commit asking

questions posing

delicate conundrums mimicking

words and sentiments bowing

down in a morass of blasphemes amidst

the stench of anathema in which

some of us float 

resisting

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