I believe in the underworld –

I’ve been there

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I believe in the underworld –

the world as hell, fall and adversary

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I have harrowed my hell –

my abyss

my inferno and pandemonium

my limbo and purgatory

my Lethe and Styx

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I have felt my fall –

my bondage and exile

my cross and sword

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I have fought my adversary –

my serpent and beast

my leviathan and behemoth

my Moloch and Mammon

my Legion and Wormwood

my minotaur and sphinx

my chimera and hydra

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God is a hole in the heart of the world

and he’s hungry –

omnipotent, omniscient, omnivorous