I was there when my church
went full 'Spinal Tap' in it's way,
without realising that it was doing it.
The church performed all it's normal words,
and got the expected responses to it's rituals,
quietly unaware that the world they were part of,
had changed, the old rituals had less purchase
on this new world than was presumed.
The ritual also hid the new world,
by sustaining a uniformity of effect.
We still all believed in what we said
but in the silly world we were all joined to,
we had no way to reversing-engineer
the alchemy-in-reverse of the absurdity.
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