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Mark and Eric talk wealth gap, systemic overhaul, and the scandal of politics in the fading western empire. Along the way, they talk about Jesus as a Second Temple Period human sage, a different kind of kingdom, and how to treat people in hard knock times.

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Heart,
Mark and Eric

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MR. SMITH STAYS HOME.

I’ll save all of my Hallelujahs,
for a world without hunger
and all of my thoughts and prayers
for the younger generation,
in a private room where I con—fess
just how scared I am to be blessed
by the modern world and all its current religions.
Conservative or Liberal,
Democrat or Republican,
all the same, there and back again,
whatever the name—
The churches in the capitol city
raise praise to capitalism
and corporate identity
while ignoring the fact that
we know all their ideologies,
are just dressed up in their best
for the funeral of the old West.
We are in an Age
of great overturning and rage;
some of us are prophets
intuiting your profits, Mr. Senator,
or at least we can see,
that yours is a labyrinth free
of any real threat of a minotaur.
I ony see Uncle Scar
and a pack of scrapping hyenas
lost to the realities of the hunt;
a troop of foreign policy runts.
And besides, a modern Mr. Smith
stays home alone like Kevin,
or dreaming of heaven—
he already learned and replied—
a good man can never go to Washington
and remain virtuous inside.

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