Inside My Fortress

 In a Fortress of Radical Subversion I sleep
 I eat and sweat through Sisyphian Labors
 From Bluegrass I rise willing the sky an emerald Green
 Victory is not my goal, only revolution
 Undying, unending, around and around
 So once again the Phoenix may rise
 from fire and ash a destruction never ending


 In this crazed temple the extremism of liberties most distant edge
 raised before me I worship proud and unprostrate
 In her deepest chambers the wisdom of the ages is flogged
 Beaten to infirmity with sublime humor and hoodwink irony
 Mine eyes glaze glowing Promethean fire
 refusing nature, God and Man as One
 Yea, as none they exert influence on that will
 which resides inside this fortress.  

- John Valentine 2002

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