los-angeles
from my knockoff of Ventisca's modern day Cultist Simulator-ish setting. (formerly) of the Edge, nonconsensually blessed by the Tide. It's complicated.

I shall die, but
that is all that I shall do for Death.
I hear him leading his horse out of the stall;
I hear the clatter on the barn-floor.
He is in haste; he has business in Cuba,
business in the Balkans, many calls to make this morning.
But I will not hold the bridle
while he clinches the girth.
And he may mount by himself:
I will not give him a leg up.

Though he flick my shoulders with his whip,
I will not tell him which way the fox ran.
With {his hoof on my breast}, I will not tell him where
the black boy hides in the swamp.
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death;
I am not on his pay-roll.
-- Conscientious Objector by Edna St. Vincent Millay