Martyrs

March 8, 1982

Honor your saints, who live in the light-stream flowing through colored glass. Those, of your kind, who gave themselves in sacrifice. It is their due to grace the legend and the calendar. But do not forget the wild-eyed ones pouring their dumb prayer through the wire of laboratory cages; the white bears covered in oil, the nameless and helpless who suffer and die to answer a question for Science.