The Cratered Moons are Truer
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BBC News – Solstice Strawberry Moon: June full Moon rises behind Greece’s Temple of Poseidon – BBC News
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Religions always get it wrong. They say
That things are neater than they are. The right
Is right and bad is bad. There ain’t no gray.
The foes of God are black and God is bright.
The ancient Greeks had gods as bad as bad
Can be, but, hey!, they were divinities.
It follows they were neat. There is a scad
Of pagan gods. They are obscenities
Parading as the purest best to pray
To. Moons rise up above the temples built
For them. The moons ignore them, go their way,
Opposed to them because of pillared guilt.
Moons rise in arcs, not straight, straight lines. The priests
Are busy eating sacrificial beasts.
~ Phillip Whidden