Uganda massacres of 2000
(excerpt)

Messiahs And Mullahs:
Eccentrics, though some very sincere
And believable but not the
Spiritual lunatics without limits
Who infested the lands
With fragrant and fragile
Beauties of emptiness
Of course, weightless conversations of dementia
The end of eternity as a theme,
Flows in their damaged circuitry of perception,
Their role calls to no end
Jesus of Oyingbo in Nigeria
Olumba Ozumba of Calabar
Jonestown of Guayana
Doomsday cults everywhere
Heaven's Gate of California
And now,
A band of proselytes in Uganda--
The Tenth Commandment Club.
Like the Jonestown of Guayana
The crusade of the 1300's
They led thousands
to ritual deaths in
Their crescendo of violence

How stony daft the human mind
In the name of salvational possession
They failed to see
The woods for the trees
If a fish rots from the head
The rest is not worth saving
When the roots of a tree
Begin to decay,
It spreads death to the branches.

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San Diego, California
2000