Tag: ancient egypt

• Meat prayers to Sobek, spinebreaker of the upper Nile

  Shutter Island life Like I’m constantly in denial Not just a river beloved by Osiris Offerings of meat to Sobek You could see your breath Easter Island size of your head Through the glass pipe they use for the meth Primate dressed up in primark I’m a pyro rich on gyro and I’ll force a…

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  19th Jan 2026

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• 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,…

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• Terrifying astral alignments

  Finally every star in alignment Earning a living from writing is primary I must do myself this kindness I am close to blindness with misery I see before me a world blanched and piteous With pity for me, I see only smog scree and bleached Edens I am half-eaten, moths flee when the jacket is…

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• Desertion Before Actium 

  Elven lemon sky Ionian Sea Roman killing Roman, Juno’s griefful heaving stirred seas Flux disease and desertion distilled Antony’s ranks to truest champions Still they reckoned a reckonable force  Skipper swearing fingers to his lips whffffphhhs signalling swift ship’s arrival  Assuring no rival lyingly flies friendly flags, wolf in sheepen rag Long boathook like snake-choking…

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• Nights Before Actium

  Before Actium in Egypt Fifteen years purgatory for Marc Antony, among bird-headed statuary Drinking whilst playing kingly chance games, discipline eroding steadily  Telling his men they must continue trusting him unto triumph “Jupiter will smite their ships, Set having sewn confusion among them We will feed them to the Nile, Sobek thence casts judgement Fear…

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