Zeno Urges Zero Tolerance

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“Zeno . . . taught that the soul is body and the body is soul.” ~ R. H. Blyth

“And man became a living soul.”  Genesis 2:7

No laws, no temples and no statues; sports

Do not exist.  The men and women wear

The same in clothing.  This ideal aborts

The need for gender notions so your pair

Of testicles, your pair of breasts do not

Need noting.  Titan hands produced you, pure

The way you came.  Olympics are a plot

Against the way we are.  Do not abjure

Your natural state.  Instead, do not just know

Yourself but be yourself, be happy with

Yourself—despite some god…some god…your foe.

Chuck over every useless, godly myth.

  When you are dead, be buried, burned, exposed

    For vultures.  Who can care?  Your book is closed.

~ Phillip Whidden