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Thank you, Sir, and I agree: Thank you, Sir, and I agree exactly.  Both Octavian and Herod were, basically, usurpers---both obsessed with retaining supreme power within their families, and both driven to express that power openly with enormous building projects that nearly bankrupted the economy of the Roman Empire.  (The tax enrollment that brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, where Jesus was subsequently born, was instituted by Octavian---who, by that time, was called Augustus---to refill the empty treasury that he had spent on architecture, both in Rome and through the provinces.)  Octavian supposedly murdered Kaisarion (although he could never produce the body) because Kaisarion had the better claim to the Roman imperium; and, of course, Herod attemped to kill Christ, who had, has, and always will have the ultimate throne from which to reign and rule.    By way of historical coincidence, although the Apostle Saint Paul was the first Scriptural writer to call Christ the King Of Kings (in 1 Timothy 6:15), Kaisarion was given that same title (about a century prior to Paul's writings) by his stepfather, Mark Antony.

Advice taken. Trash in, trash: Advice taken. Trash in, trash out. Trash out foul odour out.

Thank you so much.  This week: Thank you so much.  This week has been very serene, as I look at, and plan for, a sequence of poems in a style that is new to my work, but seems to have been in the making since I first aspired to poetry decades ago.  I think I still have a bit left in me.

Thank you for taking the time to read my poem.: Thank you for taking the time to read my poem. I am very honoured that you view my writing to a standard worthy of such an Author as Robert Aickman. This poem represents the daily struggles that I am sure a lot of people face as I do myself. We all have inner demons.  All of my writings come from first-hand experience, so once again thank you for taking the time to read them! 

I really like the tone of: I really like the tone of private conversation in this poem.

A lot of trash can only get: A lot of trash can only get back in if you let it

Sinner: You gonna tell me God isn't come to judge the sinners? Of course he came to save us but if people don't believe in Hell or the Church or the saints and think that God is gonna be happy they didn't dig a little deeper and find out what the church was doing when the Biblical canon was being formed. The west has develped out of lawlessness. Now, where in the scriptures does it say we shouldnt renounce the ways of the world? My Bible and the Saints tell me exactly the opposite of what you have said. They tell me to renounce the world and all its ways and pick up my Cross and die to the world of sin and materialistic desires. if that's a lie show me. Martin Luther helped cause the Holocaust with his anti semetic interpretations of the scriptures. Now, are you gonna tell me Hinduism or Buddhism or any of these other religions are the way to the Father? Or is using heroin good? Or is having a secular mindset a good thing? I have to know what's been influenced by Satan. I'm not here acting like I have all the answers. I'm the chief of sinners as Saint Paul said. I know what sin does to a man's soul. Until I let the passions die I didn't recieve any peace.