A Lengthy Death In Dog Years

Chant the chant of the undesirable
Bleat the cornrow nocturne over the fields
Strike mortal terror into the secret
hearts of the most commonplace warlords
With nothing more than a terrible smile

Loose death free from its rattling cage
With nary enough time to denounce
all that is unleashed along with it!

Learn to level entire cities with nothing more than the force of thought--
A power cribbed from obsolete manifestoes
& spawned anew into an encyclopedic reference manual for the next, truest servant of Hell
Already branded by the tarnished façade common to all great liars

Mutilate with destitute precision the fleeting hordes of senselessness
With a slapdash reconnaissance to recover any remaining pieces of Aladdin’s Lamp
To be reassembled on the drawing room board with an award-winning marketing plan Already formulated to pay out immense fortunes
to those who most closely personify true evil--

Corroborate the murderer’s tall tale with one just as ghastly
Lay waste to the stale parasites that drive you on to shallowly infinite glory
Cling to the stained-glass spiderweb that cuts out the hearts of all
who dare approach it
Reconstruct with scrap iron any fallen monument to discord,
Step by bloodthirsty step
Then relax in its stately halls on a bed of human fat
Made from the slaves who perished for that express purpose:
A labor as much in vain as the world would allow