Tiernan: Penance (October 2007-New Orleans)

Oct 12, 2007 16:03

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

-Publilius Syrus, Maxims

Kneeling at the alter, I go through the motions I have for hundreds of years. I speak the tongue of the Latins in the way it was spoken at Rome's height in supplication before I begin. The oddly shaped scourge in the brazer has sat just long enough to make the metal hot. I gird my ( Read more... )

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thecajun October 12 2007, 22:31:30 UTC
Freak.

(good writing though)

-H :)

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