Plague Songs - Poltergeist 2 / by Rich Hobbs

Forgive me - be done in a trice,

But there’s other kinds of poltergeist

Or, to be more imprecise,

A kind of noisy cockatrice

And servant of the AntiChrist

Deployed to add a certain spice

To our affairs, there to entice

The gullible with merchandice

Invariably overpriced

While bellowing (yet quite concise)

That all our enemies are lice

And not as we are (we’re like mice)

And thereby steep us in their vice

That equates hell with paradise

(Where all’s seen as a game of dice

Through lying eyes, as chilled as ice)

Explaining how, when they top-slice,

It’s their own brand of sacrifice.

Although, if you take my advice,

When watching these brash poltergeists

Slice and splice, once, twice, then thrice,

A single brittle grain of rice

And serve it up on edelweiss

Drawling “All yours! Yum yum”, suffice

It to say, the poltergeists

Make all that noise and come on nice

To blind you to their masters’ heists.

Now that’s me done on poltergeists.