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# Salt of the Earth
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/salt-of-the-earth/
- Published: 2024-03-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: The difference between Sodom and Gomorrah and your town, USA? Don't ask a priest. Referring to the passage in the Torah, some questionable beauties, but no Beast, though plenty on the flaws in human natures, both real...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

The difference between Sodom and Gomorrah  
and your town, USA? Don't ask a priest.  
Referring to the passage in the Torah,  
some questionable beauties, but no Beast,  
though plenty on the flaws in human natures,  
both real and imagined by old men  
and hastened into law by legislatures  
that claim to know the details of God's plan.  
His wrath? Oh, that's a common enough story.  
His meting out a punishment: pure joy.  
What softer hearts forgive as allegory  
the harder ones call reason to destroy.  
Our values, they will preach, under assault.  
Please take these pillars with a grain of salt.