They are so proudly distinctly different
from all others surrounding them clutching
their faith to their hearts, wearing those hearts
so visibly in long black flowing robes the
women concealing themselves from unauthorized
gaze, the community cloistered forbidding its
members communion with others lest they and
their community be tainted by the commonality
of the surrounding culture, theirs dedicated to
one on high and none other, certainly not to the
specious authority of any government as they
declare themselves immune from laws and
regulations meant for others while they exclude
themselves with the riposte that God alone
informs their action by his ineffable judgement
as they defy instructions broadcast to inform
the public of measures to be taken by all in the
hopes of staving off a deadly malevolent virus
from exacting ever greater punishment on human
life. Their piety the talisman the virus shrinks from.
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