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I; AN ANALYSIS OF A CERTAIN DOCUMENT by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: I'M A PROPHET, AND THEREFORE, OF COURSE
Last Line: IN THE REALMS OF AN ETHICAL TASK.
Subject(s): MORALITY; UNFAITHFULNESS; ETHICS; INFIDELITY; ADULTERY; INCONSTANCY;
I'm a prophet, and therefore, of course,
I'm a tragic and much-abused man;
I'm a hero of holy, pre-Adamite force;
I pursue the original plan.

I promised to honor and love,
I promised to cherish and keep,
But Truth is my god in the heavens above,
Whoever may flabbily weep.

And therefore I'm happy to state,
In the name of the Truth I adore,
That Another has entered my Being of late
And that I am Hers Evermore.

That is, I should like to explain,
I am hers, she is mine, as it were,
In an ethical, high-philosophical vein,
Till some other Impression occur.

The preachers, and such, I defy;
They act without logic or ruth;
And they utterly fail to have noticed that I
Am a Loyal Disciple of Truth.

I refuse to discuss the details,
The bondage of father to child;
In points such as this Christianity fails,
And I am for Truth undefiled.

Those trivial family cares
To the ex-wife most properly fall;
These domestic arrangements are private affairs
And none of your business at all.

For has she not money galore?
And what further could Womanhood ask?
And now I am free to exult and to soar
In the realms of an Ethical Task.



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