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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia

from Poetic License by The Crows Of Albion

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metal rock song

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Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia


Dearly beloved
We are gathered here
To denounce Satan
In all his guises.

But
How shall we know him
I hear you ask.

Well
The Book Of Revelations
Tells us
That he shall be identified by a number

And that number is
Six hundred and sixty six
The number of the beast.

A fear of that number is called
Hexakosioi
Hexekonta
Hexaphobia

And we have one of our congregation
Here today
Who is sorely afflicted
By that complaint

Let us hear his story……

His dog craps in my garden
to the sound of metal rock.
His kids creep round my greenhouse
scrawling balls and giant cock.
His wife is bruised and beaten
all around the fucking clock.
His preferred weapon of choice
is to hurt and maim and shock.

Home from church on a Sunday,
he has a bonfire burning -
pitchforking rubber tyres
and dead meat that is turning.
I whip the washing in quick
(You see that I am learning),
while he stares over my fence
his face a mass of gurning.

I swear his head has two horns
that protrude like little bumps.
His chimney coughs and splutters -
a sulphurous cloud it pumps.
When he laughs my cats screech loud,
and their hair falls out in clumps
as shelves and windows rattle
and all my best china jumps.

Got post for B L Z Bubb
waiting to let the cat in -
I took it round - he was out
Well! Mrs Bubb got chatting
he spend hours in the basement
when all she hears is scratting
and some strange incantations
sung in archaic Latin.

All hell broke loose last Monday -
plagues of locusts were released,
I called the cops in anger -
for a little while it ceased.
I want to sell my semi,
so please call to view at least.
I live at six, six, seven
I’m the neighbour of the Beast.

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from Poetic License, released March 29, 2014

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