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Three wicks glow out
from the fresh-hot flames
above them.

The radio speaks out
about the horrors of
the seal hunt.

And how do a few dead infants
from a species we’ve sponsored
by killing its enemies compare

to the other
outlaw
industries?

         What about sugar? What
       about
       meat?

The evening thickens in around
the flames.
The truth sighs out;

everything we touch
has blood on its hands. We sold our
simple truths.
       We sold order for a
     down-payment on future order.

I was gouged today by
the immigrants in the market. I bought their
opium-scented candles, overpriced.

I let them charge me extra for
the metaphors
I thought they might
contain.