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[For Lady Rae, to whom I promised a satire on the relative morality]

Are we that deceived?
But we have not believed.
We do not like this faith that Jesus teaches.

He says there is one way,
or else the judgment day.
I think this Rabbi really over-reaches.

Here, each may find his path
without risking the wrath
of God, in some Sodom-like punishment.

Logic of human thought
is all we ever sought;
beyond that all may reason as they want.

A man's morality
is individually
determined, as each life is quite complex.

For all to get along,
we cannot point out wrong---
not drugs, or drink, or even kinky sex.

And so we spend our days,
and all have their own ways,
and that---Friend---satisfies enough and fills.

But in the dark of night,
we lay abed in fright
and listen to the demons howling in the hills.

Starward

[jlc]