<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font>Someday I Will Tell a Great and Shining Truth</font></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Someday I will tell a great and shining truth<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">that will buy back all my dignity.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">My silver words like coins will drop into the<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">mouths of my enemies, killing their tongues like ancient<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">poisons stilled the breasts of<span> </span>enemy kings, confounding<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">their long-built case against me.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">These words will buy back my soul.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Someday I will tell a great and shining truth, in whose<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">deep structures will finally be exposed<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">the war I come from: the war of babies fighting<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">terrible battles, using weapons unparalleled on any field<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">against foes disguised as friends,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">agents of mass destruction vomiting out of their little<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">mouths: “I need, I need” they scream,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">undoing the universe.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Frenzied flags of terror unfurl all around them, banners<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">of the war: “Be quiet, be quiet” screams back the valiant<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">army, meeting bravely the battle.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Fists fly, penises stiffen, juices flow, fingernails furrow—<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">but babies rally their unending forces,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">crying simply out their need, their need, O God, their need,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">unrelenting in the fray.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">In panic the defending troops deploy their only hope:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">they leave.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">The terrible enemy is defeated, finally, by silence,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">and the world is saved.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">Someday I will tell a great and shining truth, and<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">all my burnt tribe, dragging their blankets behind them,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; ">will enter into my heart once again, making me whole.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; "><font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>- Kalia Mussetter</font></div></body></html>