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No God For Expiation
No God for Expiation
By Sy Roth

Held in ungodly thrall
Their bodies wracked blasphmely dry
Loosley held together by the striped cloth.

Typhus-infested, David-starred beasts
Caricatures of humanity
Carved into beasts of burden

Only worthy of torture, or
Zyklon deaths---
Their punishment for existence

Work, arbeit, toil, till death,
Clock-seconds beating to an end,
When they strip...

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Categories: expiation, angst, anxiety, dream,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things