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 to be used 8 years later in the song "1996".