self-indulgent rites
spurious rubrics
salacious relics
extemporaneous tenements
the overembroidered antistrophe
the epistemic polemic
another hapless chapter
recorded in the Forgotten Archive
shirking the mandated
cleansing of the shrines
passing judgment like a kidney stone
ceding my right to proceed
through the procession, hoity-toity
foibles and follies of the executionist