Cartman's skull and removed a certain part of the former sun priest's brain. He devoured it, laughing. Then he turned him loose to run with the other rough-shouldered beasts, the former priests, who had the freedom of the green-hued dome under Caine's man-made mountain. ********
Voodoo
Nightlong, daylong, the drums were never still --
Daylong, nightlong, they whispered in our dreams --
Nightlong, daylong, they wove the web of ill:
A dozen miles at sea we caulked our seams,
Nourished strange growths and festered in the sun,
Low in the water with our sodden beams;
Westward the harrying shadows sprawled and spun,
Eastward the mudflats simmered in foul glare;
And the drums mumbled, rumbled, never done:
By the third festering day we were aware
Of something ominous in our pantomine --
We twitched like rabbits taken in a snare --
We moved in unison and jerked in time
Like sorcerer's dolls to that compelling rhyme.
-- Richard Dunwich
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