A dramatic desert painting. One hillside in shadow, another under what might be moonlight, but the hillside is blood red. The sky is blues and golds, a rough brushstrokes.

As if you don't know it by now,
there is no devil, nor a god,
no exile to the land of nod.
Just stories from the old and odd
to seize from you a useful vow.

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