12:18 Cleansed

 Old English: clǣnsen.

Old English Root: clǣne - clean, pure, unmixed.

Leviticus 14:4: Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.

Mark 1:42: And as soon as he had spoken, immediately the leprosy departed from him, and he was cleansed.

In MAGA America, clean means white, and MAGA is cleansing the country by deporting non-white members.

But there are no real white people.

Brain-Eating Amoebas in Texas

More bad stuff from south of the border—
brain-eating amoebas in Texas.
Are they just part of the natural order,

like poisonous rattlesnakes and spiders,
residing somewhere in the hierarchy of Linnaeus—
a ways east of Eden’s border?

The brain-eating amoebas live in the Latin quarter—
just more devil-spawn to tease us.
We’re the kings of the natural order,

anointed stewards of this former garden,
so we must rid our fields of weeds—
unspeciated—from south of the border.

God told us the ground would be harder
here than it was in Eden, but He never intended
brain-eating amoebas to be part of the order

of nature. But I wonder:
does God love us, or do the brain-eating amoebas love us
more? Bad seed from north of the border,
elected with Linnaeus’s ballot-sorter.


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