Are We Winning Yet? Spring 1999

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By their very designations, we know the meek are available for all manner of insult, the poor have no effectual recourse against blithe designs of the rich, and that enigmatic crew we recognize as merciful refuses still to stand up for itself, which makes of them all prime objects for whatever scheme the brutes ordain.In time, they become mute relics for those who mourn. If any still crave righteousness, they are maligned then stuffed with straw and burned, or hacked to bits and burned. If the pure are anywhere present, we wouldn't know them, which is surely to their advantage. Fools who work for peace are pressed into adjoining cells, neatly cut off from any province that matters.

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