Conscious Cogitation: A Collection of Secular and Philosophical Poetry

Mordavith

Publisher: Atheist Republic Publications

Summary

This book is for the nurse, the clerk, the painter, the father, 
The cousin, the aunt, the entertainer, the daughter; 
The writer, the artist, the singer, the dreamer, 
The cook, the hostess, the soldier, the schemer; 
The seller, the scientist, the geek, the server, 
The cop, the lawyer, the druggie, the coworker; 
The friend, the builder, the foe, the brother, 
The nun, the bishop, the skeptic, the mother; 
The trainer, the athlete, the fireman, the teacher, 
The partier, the atheist, the helper, the preacher; 
The journalist, the laborer, the janitor, the student,  
The intellectual, the old, the optimist, the prudent; 
For expression, for speech, for thought, for truth, 
For aesthetics, for language, for poetry, for youth. 
For you, 
For you, 
For you, 
And you. 
In solidarity, 
Mordavith

Available since: 09/24/2015.

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