August 16, 2013 - while we weep

Today I visited the national secular temple
to worship the Goddess Minerva, Virgin
of Wisdom and War -

we make ablution with the warm waters
of Jeffersonian idealism before we enter
the holy of holies -

we shut our eyes and ears to the hypocrisies,
and our collective birth defect gets banished
to the wine cellar -

while we weep, while we weep –