in the likeness of their god

the cruel gift, the dark grace

the neo-conic birthmark 

heil hitler, heil hitler

we're hitler-hailing

calling forth his ghosts 

for new hosts

for new examinations

and new exterminations

for new-jews re-imagines

by the sure purification 

of the ole human race

to form a new people

in the likeness of their god

*Thoughts of Jean Sulivan:

-The true birth of a person takes place when the spirit takes over - not thoughts, not ideas, but spirit - when prejudices fall like dry fruit under the wind of liberty, because mental attachments are more fatal that those of the flesh.

-Death does not always come just at the end of life.  There are a great many living dead among us, people who exist only as part of the crowd, content with merely being on stage in the theater of the world.  Whose who have not awakened, who have become rigid in their values and principles, vice and virtues, who are intent on making themselves believed, have betrayed their baptismal names, even though they pose as venerable defenders of the good, the honored, and the blessed.  They have not yet been born.

-People are born only at the moment they come to terms with  spiritual liberty.  But who practices spiritual liberty, who really tests it?  The Christian world seems to have patiently accomplished the feat of transforming the most scathing part of the message,  Paul's song of liberation, into an object of sickly hymns and mental illusions, a refuge for misfits, leaving atheism to rediscover the explosion of liberty at the heart of life.  It may be a  wounded liberty, rootless and absurd, but it is still exciting enough to take the place of faith for entire generations, with great leaders, with both prophets and false prophets.