For a long time, I have been sick.
I have been sick with the maladies known only to few, pondered by even fewer and accepted by almost none.
Oh, to be in death's arms and watch the parade of champions of virtue or evil, knowing there exists none, arguing so vehemently for the place beyond life, where they will get none, bribing the entity in names of prayer, when the entity cares none.
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Extract from recent writing