Gain by murder

Old murder stain immortal on the Molesworth floor

Dirty kitchen corner

Where in hornier cornmaking days we spent time cavorting

Feasts fit for horned lords, sporting hunt blusterful

Wide-ended blunderbussish his wondrous hunting horn

Painted urn waxy and lustrous, bull blood red and bone dust white

Depicting the blinding of one-eyed Polyphemus on the Sicilian Isle

Two serpents, two whores; servants to a twin-aspect idol.

Bereft of blessings I opened the second door to mystery,

Toward the top floor the staircase spiralled dizzyingly.

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