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LET THERE BE DARKNESS

The Abbess of Abjection

Let there be darkness.

On the sixth day He

wrought man from the dirt

And gave him a heart-

lessness. Let there be darkness

and man do his part

to shape from the earth

creation's true nothingness.

Let there be dark

In the beginning

God made the end

Denying Satan

Annulling the abyss

Light over wastelands

Heaven-severed-Earth

The dome & the basin

Erasing all wholeness

God saw it was good

Because he couldn't see

Blind and mindless

Insane architect

Scattered the seeds

Ejaculated planets

Failed to account for

Death's immensity

At the end of the fourth day

The fatal word spoken

Fertile behemoth

Raven & vulture

Teeming ocean

Sky's ripe abundance

Yet the word lethal serum

When first human-uttered

Before God rested

Bequeathed his evil spawn

The blessing of a cancer cell

Dominion's metastasis

The divine image

Disease of the land

Encrusting earth's diversity

Genesis reversed.