is a history where so much spurious reason
is made to work so ridiculously hard
at justifying such gross inequality,
it is the modern history of idolatry
that everyone wants to ignore.
From statues of figures rooted in wild stories
to modern mathematics written in copperplate,
an ancient and now illegible lettering,
both are abstract figures
that demand our obedience
to false and unforgiving pasts.
We want the old gods disguised
and alive, but unrecognised,
so we can't see them anymore.
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