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I've seen people in my generation destroyed by the greatest minds of the previous.
I know those who've suffered greatly at the hands of their host.
Who have been denied access to any sort of love or life of sociality.
Who have been accepted to the wrong side of a single-edged blade,
who decided to rebel against a perfectly sound system and to abide by a fundamentally flawed institution.
Who feel philosophical ideologies will be the final affect to furnish the furrowed query about life in flocks of unfeathered birds.
Who praise the ones that fail to fix deathly problems in the societal foundations.
Who will never see that praising the dead is as pointless as drinking milk after you double your birth weight.
Who think that mailboxes are the receivers of the only truthful knowledge; little do they know that all knowledge is factual, otherwise it isn't called knowledge.
Who understand that without God, you can't have a good time out on Highway 61, like the seventh son.
Who don't understand that with God, you can do whatever you can do without God, only better when you actually listen to him.
Who actually saw Abraham Washington and George Lincoln play the skeleton keys in the rain, with one of the weird looking harps.
Who strung Odysseus to the shaft and allowed him to listen to the Joan Baez-like voices of the Muses.
Who's existence is for the fireworks and who's home is inside the the chip inside an atheist's brain.
Whoever thinks Alan Moore is a freak has to think that Miley Cirus has at least some talent; thank God I ain't one of them.
Who has no direction home or is out on his own or is a complete unknown is a pretty lonesome person.
Who has never felt the warmth of a pretty girl's body, or felt the pleasure of her lips against yours, is all the better person, for love blinds all those who fall into and within its grasp.
Who thinks Elvis and The Beatles are of rock music must also think that Led Zeppelin and The Who are relics from ancient Greece.
Who denies science over religion is naive and is not of the Earth nor the Cosmos.
Who denies religion over science is naive and is not of star stuff nor of evolution.
Who accepts religion and science is wise and shall inherit the Kingdom of Heaven and His mind.
Who denies the Holocaust and persecutes for no other reason than to feel accepted and important is one I call mad.
Who thinks that love and Love are the same things is unable to love nor be loved.
Who values the collective over the individual is a man of science but not a man of faith.
Who values the individual over the collective is a man of faith but not a man of science.
Who doesn't know The Who and always replies, "who?" whenever The Who is mentioned.
Who doesn't know Led Zeppelin and always replies, "a zeppelin made out of lead?" whenever Led Zeppelin is mentioned.
Who thinks Miley Cirus is a rockstar and the Jonas Brothers is a rock group is quite in the dark when it comes to music.
Who thinks slash 'n' burn is good and should be executed but feels that its only money that counts.
Who thinks Humanity is special.
Who believes in Andrew Jackson.
Who believes in General Sherman.
Who is gay.
Who is straight.
Who is white.
Who is black.
Who is brown.
Who is a man.
Who is a woman.
Who is a person of faith.
Who is a person of science.
Who is both.
Who is neither.
Who is dead.
Who is alive.
Who is a thought.
Who lives in a dome.
Who lives in a condo.
Who lives under a bridge.
Who lives alone.
Who lives lives as a Bohemian.
Who eats trash.
Who eats rarities.
Who is deep.
Who is shallow.
Who is fat and greasy.
Who is skinny and bony.
Who is just right.
Who is God.
Who is Buddha.
Who is Allah.
Who is Yahweh.
Who is Zeus.
Who is Thor.
Who is Johanna.
Who is the rebel.
Who is the weak.
Who is the watchman.
Who is protector.
Who is the terrorist.
Who is the peace keeper.
Who is mad man.
Who is the Pope.
Who is the stupid.
Who is the intellectuals.
Who is Helen of Sparta.
Who is Hektor of Troy.
Who is Achilles of Greece.
Who is man of Earth.
Who is woman of Earth.
Who is of the Earth.
Who is only star stuff.
Who is me.
Who is you.
Who lives and does not die.
Who dies and does not live.
Who laughs and does not cry.
Who cries and does not laugh.
Who fights.
Who makes love.
I've seen people in my generation destroyed by the greatest minds of the previous.
I know those who've suffered greatly at the hands of their host.
In the Name of the Father,
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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