'To Hate All The People Your Relatives Hate'

Religion
the bullet
that loads 
in your gun

Projecting
its damage
belief
zero-sum

Exclusion
delusion
its sights
center mass

To kill
nonbelievers
 the infidel
class

(The New Room: December, 2023)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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