Stained Glass

"Stained Glass" from The Long Hard Road Out of Hell
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Released:	February 14, 1998
Illustrator:	P. R. Brown
Publisher:	ReganBooks
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Media type:	Print (Paperback)
Length:	288 pages
ISBN:	0060392584

"Stained Glass" is a poem Brian Warner wrote to Night Terrors magazine in 1988. The letters along with the poem can be found in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.

Poem

      In the wooden silence
      genuflecting fornicators
      seek penance and false-toothed
      idealists throw grub steaks on the offering plate

      light a candle for the sinners
      light a fire

      self-pronounced prophet, parable seeking Protestant
      preaches his diatomic dogma,
      disembowelling indiscreetly.

      Supplicate
      congregate
      the world looks better through stained glass

      light a candle for the sinners
      set the world on fire

      Falsities
      Falsities
      Falsities, Factuality’s
      All sitting like eager sponges,
      soaking up the tertiary realities of life.  

Trivia

• The poem can be found on page 58 in The Long Hard Road Out of Hell.
• The line "light a candle for the sinners, set the world on fire" was later to be used 8 years later in the song "1996".