Klaxon

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. - Thoreau

swollen

wailing

slow in pitch

flashing

radiating

like a relentless b***h

when the siren sounds

heads turn

eyes helter skelter

stomachs churning acid

sick

ill at ease

rivers stop flowing

dammed by condemnation

dubiousness overthrown by the certainty of knowing

we're all guilty

Author's Note

"It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always. The conscience really does not, and ought not to monopolize the whole of our lives, any more than the heart or the head. It is as liable to disease as any other part." - Thoreau