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Inconveniences Rightly Considered

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by Lancelot Schaubert

III. Conversatio

  and drove in that state

  and got hit by a train

  on Hotze road

  in his car

  so they say,

  so they're saying in line

  and I'm at fault.

  His blood's on my hands for our

  do don't do

  demands

  no, I won't serve time, but my

  demands

  His blood

  His blood's all over my hands,

  can't get it off of my forearms

  It should have been him who heard

  'If you can be a preacher,

  why stoop to be a king?'

  in Bible College

  and me in the coffin,

  for he was only high,

  and I?

  I've raped and pillaged

  murdered, burned,

  cheated, stolen,

  done restless work,

  carved my gods of plasma screens,

  tortilla chips,

  weight changes,

  my brother's lifting weights,

  I've minted coins in my image,

  committed genocide,

  avenged,

  and raged

  inside my mind.

  IV. The Whisper

  "Worst of sinners"

  III. Conversatio

  in my mind

  IV. The Whisper

  "worst of sinners"

  III. Conversatio

  am I.

  V. Letter to the Editor

  'Re: What's wrong with the world?

  Dear sirs,

  I am.

  sincerely,'

 

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