and lips and teeth and palates and larynx and trachea
scheme deviously,
working together to form sounds into words and phrases and sentences
that really should not emit from my mouth:
words and phrases and sentences that burn and deceive and destroy.
No matter how much I threaten these articulators
with the ferocious crack of my whip,
they continue to hatch their evil plans.
After becoming exhausted in my attempt to put them in line,
I find that I have been admonishing the wrong culprits;
the real mastermind
lies much deeper than its henchmen,
and cracking the whip
won't make it beat differently.
---
James 3:1-13
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