He Who Watches Over You Will Not Slumber

Georgia Kotretsos - 10 Fingers 88 Teeth [1 of 14] (2006)

And Congress, he said, was a collection of beaten souls with a powerful free will. Just like the wood-paneled walls that always surround them, they were once growing towards the sun too. He watches C-SPAN because it makes him feel like Jesus. All-powerful and technically in control, he watches their motions and bills pass. His intentions are hung like drapes and padded like seats as a frame for their God-less days. He judges but does not intervene. Until judgment day, he says, when participation seems grand but too little too late.

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