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I wrote that sometime in high school, likely after reading God Emperor - which puts it freshman year while I was having knee surgery. Clearly that's the subject.

A Rant of the Holy Obscenity

A Dune Villanelle

I see the Now rolling in sand
the Future dictating the Past
Waiting in this human hand

With an Atreides in command
My endless dream loosed by a blast
I see the Now rolling in sand

armed with ghola at my right hand
long gone Tabr, a cache ever last
Waiting in this human hand

Son of the man-child unplanned
a place unseen where I hold fast
I see the Now rolling in sand

Stagnation! Can't you understand?
Four thousand years, never surpassed...
Waiting in this human hand

Even the bahr bela ma under the sand
Atreides are all that will ever last
I see the Now rolling in sand
Waiting in this human hand