The Gods Aren't in the Details: The Gods Are the Details (and the Devil, Too)

Our stories are
Our enemies.
Inasmuch as
We are our own

Stories, we are
Also our own
Worst enemies.
We're inficted.

Even the sacred,
Demonstrably
Non-narrative
Pure gem-like flame

Of the holy
Idiot's dream,
This lyric poem,
Hides a story,

A child's serpent
Gobbling real toads
In the secret
Garden of verse.