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orphicfiddler — The Rat King: An Introduction
Published: 2012-11-17 08:13:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 4077; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 1
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Description To those that remain after the horde
Spills through and picks your ragged meat-hooks clean—
To those, I say:

Let not the sharpness of my teeth
Prove daunting, for your eyes are sharper still
And make me blush.

Let not the pallor of my skull
Deter you, for had I any hairs upon my pate
You’d pluck them dry.

Yours are the mouths that shape my words,
The claws that pull my collar towards you.
You are the Makers now

And I am that which you have fashioned,
Milky-white excrescence of the manifold mind,
Pearlescent horror.

There was a Savior once, but
Your gods ate him, and Sunday after Sunday consume
Him still, as rats will do.
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ThornyEnglishRose [2021-12-30 12:14:05 +0000 UTC]

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spoems [2015-03-08 18:13:02 +0000 UTC]

That 2nd to the last strophe is gorgeous.  Surprising this piece hasn't garnered more attention than it has over the last few years.

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magpiesmiscellany [2012-11-18 01:54:11 +0000 UTC]

I'm afraid I've only seen the original.

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orphicfiddler In reply to magpiesmiscellany [2012-11-29 05:45:49 +0000 UTC]

I'll confess I've actually only seen the Herzog remake. I remember seeing bits of the original on TCM when I was a kid, but never the whole thing. I really need to at some point.

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magpiesmiscellany In reply to orphicfiddler [2012-11-29 17:04:27 +0000 UTC]

I enjoyed it. It was a detour we had after one of my demonic in literature classes.

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