hands off the animals! go vegetarian! go vegan!! + +++ The dog is sick, the dust is thick, the kids have picked most of the flowers. +++ "Doctor is coming," the nurse thinks sweetly, turning on the machines that neatly pump air. +++ Used to sing on the mountains but the mountains washed away. +++ +++ Laboring in the liquid light of Leviathan Spectres swarm around the sunken cities of the saurians Rising from the void through the blackness of eternal night Colossus of the deep comes crashing down with cosmic might And none may see again the shimmering of Avalon Or know the fates of all the races man has cursed Long gone are the ages of the alchemists Now there are none who know the secrets of the earth Harken to the howl of the Huntsman's hounds Or the clarion of kingdoms doomed and drowned Lament for the passing of the auroch And the slaying of the ancient wyrm Would you dare to meet the gaze of the basilisk Or face the flames as the phoenix burns? +++ +