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von Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

I became an atheist the Junior year of my spring semester in college

My friend from back home moved into our already crowded two-bedroom apartment
That now housed four
(and five when Cathy would move in later that year)

He was unyielding and used logic
Like a hammer or a martyr,
And would hurl question after question across the four-foot gap
Between his mattress and mine

It absolved me of any last remaining doubt

There was a certainty that finally settled in
That had been torn open during my freshman year over a course in Cultural Anthropology

I am comfortable knowing that this is it

There is so much more beauty in a life that also has death