Incense Burning

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    Flies, acolytes
    of the death-in-life temple
    buzz their prayers
    and from the altar
    of excrement arises
    an incense ...
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    The principal saloon was the Howlin’ Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where so many fights broke out that the common saying was, “We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow.”
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)