Satan called me on the telephone
It rang and it rang inside my little home
Home---stiflingly over-inhabited by
Boys and girls of all ages
No air, no space;
Darkness, disease and smells.
But I was all alone inside
a vacuum of mind.
Beelzebub told me what to do so
Who can blame me?
I screech, I laugh; I'm sorry but---
I have a tribe of cannibals
all with black hearts and white teeth, now,
waiting for my thunderous voice
We pillage huts and primitive tribes
African women clutching their babes tight to their tits,
they run, they run,
our erections and our blood rise;
they are thrashed with diamond purses,
bare necks gnashed with filed-down teeth
howling wolves surround and nip, bite bite bite---
We wear the women's skins---sometimes don their clothes
I'll chop your fucking head off and
Use it as a soccer ball;
...eyes lolling like lollipops
...tongues hanging out like a drunk debutante
exiting a sleek black limousine...
Hunt them down on chilled horizons
Hunt them down with grass cutting feet
Hunt them down between the barky trees
Hunt them down with their dying children crying
and your lips screaming
in high-pitched falsettos like
operatic sopranos
Digging, clawing,
they are
bucking and baying---
I met with the Devil and he was pleased
His curled horns and wicked smile,
his yellow fingernails and wrinkled eyebrows
had a lustrous look to them. . .
he said to me without words:
"My child. . ."
I have a worm-tongue which I slither in authority ears
Religiously set me free
I sacrifice the hearts of children and please myself;
I smile to myself, you see:
Because
In the end they'll forgive me.
Author notes
METHUSALA
This one is for a contest by KtuluBlackwolfe with aliceinpoetryland: http://allpoetry.com/contest/2425331
49 lines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Milton_Blahyi
^General Butt Naked^
"home/Home---stiflingly over-inhabited by/Boys and girls of all ages/No air, no space;/Darkness, disease and smells." ~ This is taken from Aldous Huxley's novel, "Brave New World."
Wormtongue references are always Lord of the Rings.
The invocation of the name Beelzebub is meant to accentuate the idea of flies, smells, and decay. I don't know if that worked or not. What do you guys think?
Ravenous is a movie about cannibalism.
A line that was taken out was this one: "(They chew like figs)" which was meant to be the fourth to last line. I've always wanted to compare eating a fig to human flesh, but in the end it just hindered things (dammit! lol). I think that's it.
NOV. 7th, 2008: placed 8th in said contest. I believe there were 17 entries.
A contest entry
- The Darkwrite Challenge Round III by Ktulu Blackwolfe.
800 points, ended November 7, 2008, 10 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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Hunt them down on chilled horizons
Hunt them down with grass cutting feet
Hunt them down between the barky trees
Hunt them down with their dying children crying
This has a lyric feel to it. Well done I liked the dark tone and demonic feel here.
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yeah, i think that this too was probably inspired by new Metallica lyrics, specifically All Nightmare Long...
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