The Whiskey Taster’s Flavor Guide

A cigar and an egg

A cigar and an egg 
(a memory of a ritual encounter) 

Pay Papa Death bell tolls
Dancing radiants of fluorescent sunlight
Incense choking the drums
Will it work? Perhaps. 
Watch him collapse
That — 
Monolith man obsessed with life and mammon
That — 
Homunculus bastard born of a womb-less night
White ovum cracked on her arched back 
Yellow vitellus crawls down her ass crack 
The magician needs it all 
Ingest 
That Protoplasm trimester truffle 
Before the god and his people suffer
Without need of the preacher’s seed 
Oh, but the saints doth bleed 
And hath bled 
And doth live
And hath been dead 
But the rite finds its purchase 
The egg has been lost 
Results are their purpose 
But each with their cost
The price thus to be paid: 
A dollar for a spell
And a life for a babe
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The Whiskey Taster’s Flavor Guide
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