"My urine is divine", I think she said But the words came out awash in blood Let mine eyes be thine, impieta In this age of desire, before I decay Black stone window into heaven Answer me, answer me: What is kinship of fertility With sacrosanct filth and disease? Sic transit gloria sanguis From the mouth of she, whose love is a plague Flow red-black commandments Calling for new purity... Let us pray Let righteous serpents cavort within The woman that is the altar and set the blood That filth of life, to rotting in her veins She laid her hand on the shroud and she left blood And it was dust, as it has been for a thousand years Now we wait for the stars to die in the company of flies