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59 fire >the Lord your God is a consuming fire The stories of the gods outshine the moon your story is darkness outshining the sun we hide our eyes because of your fire at the moment of the mountain let not God speak to us lest we die no wonder history gives us cities like widows sitting in their menstrual blood no wonder book of revelation surges up four horsemen orgy of vengeance after nonviolent gospels no wonder swarms of Christian soldiers burning libraries burning heretics no wonder chapel in Cuzco sculpted conquistador striding upon the prone body of an Indian no wonder imams cut hands off sinners no wonder the Jewish lunatic murders worshipers in a place of reconciliation everybody trying to look goes blind ...

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