Regarding Apocalyptists and Gnostics

Michael Peach

Those who the Garden do deny
For "Heaven" on earth or in the sky
Reject God’s law that all must die
So others, too, may fructify.

Jerusalem
1 August, 2000

How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and

If the complex causes of the catalytic Sado-masochistic syndrome Of

Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve

Whereas the good and loving One God Endows all humans

Though for many reasons The “two-state solution” Is now dead,