The hydra headed hag Expels her clutch of eggs Cockatrice or basilisk I know not Seed the darkness - inchoate Moth eaten speed the decay Recite mantras - illuminate Debilitation plague Concentration - weirding way Shrouded idols - foetid age Arbor vitae - extirpate Empty vessels disintegrate Ne plus ultra Ivory towers smashed Apes rampaging a broken silence The sore of Carthage open again Sallow mouths thirst for decline This road sown with salt Departed from its lips A locust vilification Picks at the bone And rotted flesh tatters Burnt by the wind There are rats in the walls of the palaces of greatness Lice crawling in the heads of state This is no flea bitten oracle of the vox populi For we are not the heralds of the louse ridden crown Nor progenitors of a house dignified in death False paths lead to temples of nihil Like the necronaut under a blazing sun To deliver destiny stillborn A deliberate corrode… Like a murder in the night Ravens of dispersion chaos isotopes Insect morass - pierce the veil Enter now the world