Guilt's guillotine feasts on willing hosts Swishfalls invited at the decommissioned host's insupportable neck Tradition says: take the coming as your sign that your sins are your spine When your prison is your skeleton, your escape is self-negation I heard of another way, if the hungry blade has already become your companion First, a thought bonfire, in which your discarded logs make sparks without joy Second, act, act, and act again; the will is trainable, given time and opportune habits Third, leave your window shopping shame credit card at home, buy nothing more Politics and religion and capital put headlessness to work Guilt's guillotine feasts on willing hosts Reaction, inaction, addiction, refraction Miniature gods offered aspirational abnegation, never forgiveness