Let Us Go

Dominus vobiscum

et cum spiritum tuo.

 

Hail Jehovah,

let us go,

go lie in fire

and in snow.

 

Almighty God,

let us go

lie with the damned

and the dead below.

 

Sing Apollyon,

sing for your kingdom;

the yawning abyss,

sing for the damned

and the devil’s kiss.

 

Apollyon! Abbadon! Muriel!

A trinity of names

in nominae patria,

et filiis

et spiritu sancti

are men afraid?

 

Apo, pantos kakodaimonos!

 

What demon heeds

such words here?

Where there are other,

sleeker rites to hear,

what need of fear

have those who

only demons know?

 

Come, sinners,

come now,

come join the legion

of the demons

and the damned.

 

Hail, Abbadon,

King of the Locusts.

They are come here

with the lash of a scorpion-tail

for those without the mark of God.

 

Hail, Appolyon,

Greek baring teeth

and you are here

with the last of the foolish pilgrims

a-wrestling on the rocky road.

 

Hail, Muriel,

Trick of the Tongue

here is begun

the textual confusion,

belief’s perversion

by religion.

 

Septuagint, Pentateuch, Gospels Four,

the writing is religion’s whore.

 

Then let us go

that we might know

what lies beyond fire

and under snow.