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In this community we practice

Cutting off the nose to spite the face

Giving ourselves wholly to naught

The material is an affront

To pure pursuit of

Faith in us its own reward

Exalt the group more than the word

Train yourself give up your life

The group is whence value derives

Take no pay

Receive no praise

Curse the outside

Accept no blame

Stand with us

Against the vulgar

Precarious

But holy order

Left to pursue

Our esoteric practices

No one comes in

Nobody out

Cloistered protected

Hoarding erudition

Knowledge goes in

Disdain comes out

The outside none the wiser

Overloaded

Publish, perish

Complete circle

Rubbish cherish

Meritocratic

Post-democratic

To weakness utterly

Unsympathetic

Cultivation of the

Critical faculties

Dulls the inclination

To interact with normies

Tween manicured shrubs

Amidst the burnt brick

Single-minded pursuit of

Learning lives forever

Left to pursue

Our esoteric practices

No one comes in

Nobody out

Wiser minds free to rule at last

Thought we could shed

Our baser instincts

Amassing inconsequential facts

A cult of the vain

And self-pitying

A wealth of knowledge

Stored safely till it rots

Flood within drought without

Value of sorts

Left to pursue

Our esoteric practices

No one comes in

Nobody out

Wiser minds free to rule at last

Thought we could shed

Our baser instincts

Amassing inconsequential facts

A cult of the vain

And self-pitying