Drop your keys and bow your knees
and call me the Prince of Darkness.
If I gather my teeth and stamp my feet,
it will cause a disaster.
So bow your knees, you infernal traitor,
I am the father of the nation.
The day my mother gave birth to me,
and the wind ceased blowing.
I drowned my grandmother in a
This is hell, for at the age of five,
but the schooling there was not
For I was a downright dunce
Away down from the vast eyeless regions
undauntable, impregnable.
I, the fellow, the robber,
who play with the largest
I had to ask the people permission
to get up and move the partition.
I make it out of wire and paper
and over cover it with velvet.
Over cover it with velvet.
is paved with good intentions.
who have been laying asleep
Asleep which never could be awakened
With all their pomps, vanities, luxuries
When your paltry verses are done with,
I will give you rocks to eat for bread
But your spirit will remain
For when the death bell toll
My flag unfurls for rebellion
No one shall escape unscathed