THE RITE 

"Incredulity towards 
metanarratives"
—Jean-Francois Lyotard
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It takes more than a key—
to unlock a door that’s been
locked, barricaded, forbidden

One has to be rather—
Kafkaesque, my dears, and
pose as a lowly Cockroach
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Faking METAMORPHOSIS—
with tres sneaky postmodernist
literary tricks of the trade

Foregrounding the old stories—
with new intertextual twists
like parody, pastiche & allusion