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Red-eyed Slaves
A short meditation based, in part, on Zecharia
Stitchin’s Earth Chronicles, Genesis 1:26, and
Jean Leidloff’s The Continuum Concept.
New converts mind their p’s and q’s
until they move to proselytize
and “disabuse” free-thinkers’ views —
but seldom can they answer “whys.”
We grant the refuge they provide
the rage and tears of lost mankind,
but ask, “Why are we lost, red-eyed?
Why does such pain fill heart and mind?”
We are by Anunnaki cursed.
Was they disrupted our descent
from peaceful hominids that nursed
our young in arms to heart’s content.
It’s odd we praise those “gods of old”
who made us slaves to sex and gold.
Leland Jamieson a performing arts center manager for most of his working life
, is retired and lives in East Hampton, Connecticut, USA. His recent and forthcoming
work appears in Bellowing Ark, Blue Unicorn, Neovictorian /Cochlea, Raintown Review,
and 3rd Muse. He has gathered a number of his published formal poems, some with streaming audio,
under the title Needles in a Pinewood at www.geocities.com/lelandjamieson. He is hawking a longer
book manuscript by the same name.
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Email: Leland Jamieson
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