Petitioning beast-shrouded Gods for money, lots, and revenges: locusts on crops, boils on asses that ride horses a lot, firstborn sons in cots rotting.

For revenge I call upon Gods from foreign lands

Far across Egypt’s sands

They cannot be commanded

Carefully handled; bell, book, and candle

They must be gladdened, one cannot demand

Should one, one cannot imagine their wrath

Tooth, hook, crooked look

Gods of misluck, of ruinous biteforce, of Temple smashing

Merciless and casual, gut slashing, violent fashion, idol dashing

Reaping and bloodspilling with a serpentine God’s hungry sanction

Defiling with violent passion the ziggurats housing conquered Powers.

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