The Castle Literary Magazine


Spring 2008 | Volume 62 Issue 2


taylor sutton ’10

manifest blasphemy

I study International Relations
A new chapter in history to regret
A patient evil, some vague atrocity
Unacceptable reason and rhyme, spoken in sighs
In the dust of bad feelings and exploded bricks
Twisting in the wind, our lunatic designs

Adhd is amazing, my doctor
Said that I need some chemicals
Something godless, something beautiful,
Well, thank the gods for methylphenidate
There could be a collapse in
Central Authority, the deadlock continues
My books come alive, my mind falls apart
It all comes together, my mind falls apart

Filibustered Islamic infrastructure
Libertarian Aryan gay marriage
Remember, Remember, September 11
Stalin Hitler Bonaparte and Lenin
First world, second world, third world, fourth
Partitioned police state apartheid report
Amistad armistice big stick accords
With imaginary borders, this New World mortar
We neo-colonial American idols
We legacies of un-winnable wars
Transcontinental ballistic oil drill missiles
Ottoman deposit Zion bomb metropolis
Non-secular protectorate, reoccupied Hamas
Diplomatic Pan-African axis of Jihad
“Maybe she’s born with it”
Maybe it’s Mussolini
Ethnically deep-clean micro-beads
Totalitarian televangelist decree

Articles of Reiteration, neutral rights provisions
Nuclear electorate imperial incision
Jesus-Buddha-Allah mercantile
Your god, the anthropomorphized anglophile
XYZ, UFO, IMF, WTO
NORAD NATO NAFTA CAFTA
9/11 24/7, Hegemonic demonic unilateral activist
Organized Obama drama, Secular radical national expansion
The Treaty of Westphalia, the Louisiana Purchase
Manifest Blasphemy now starts to surface
Worthless proselytized pork-barrel precursors
Hours fly by, it’s getting so late
Well, thank the gods for methylphenidate