Lawrence Hall, HSG
Orgiastic Screaming from Below
Those who called for Nonsense will find
that it comes
-C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
We have seen Milton’s
Pandaemonium
Choreographed on a wide palantir
Fallen angels praising the
Great Fallen One
In a High Council of
electrified lies
Great thunderings of fire and
rolling smoke
Issuing from a shiny
plastic throne of power
The Great Fallen One
framed in Elvis lights
On the floor the lesser
ones screaming in ecstasy
The Great Fallen One has a
plan for us
After all the balloons,
too, have fallen
[Allusions to C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings]
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