Similitudes

I shout huzzahs for scholarship
That blest tradition that's a gift
Of skills by which a mind may sift,
Great libraries, or like fellowship
That help us study ancient books
Or perhaps some cold case files
Written up in vintage styles
For future cops and aging crooks
Who now fear their own DNA
May cook like Mephistopheles
On Baptist independence day
Where sacred phantoms on the breeze
Are much like drugs they call...Class A,
In faithful service...of psychoses.