(real) wrongway satisfaction

empty
how to be filled again
pearls cast
wise as doves
gentle as
serpents
which works the opposite
of the truism

though maybe doves have wisdom
and serpents may
have
wisdom

and things work upside-
down
or in and out of time
the way the faithful claim that
foolishness is wisdom

the backward
take
look another way
from the world into eternity

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1 Corinthians 1:21

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