Harriman�s Other Place

can you put guitar hero and beowulf in the same poem? yes, yes you can.

 

If you wanna know how to get there

Go ask Old Zeke, sitting over yonder

Fables and Myths state only one may know the way

The key master who can pull forth

The flaming sword from the gate of Eden,

Our very own Charon who ushers lost souls

To the meeting place of the damned.

 

Demonic troubadours duel in the den.

One saw the flames of Hades himself

Bursting forth from their fingertips

As each note bled into the night air.

Trolls covet their sacks of gold

Each perfectly minted coin

Gilded with the blood of slain gnomes.

 

Pappy tends the still out back

Tinkering with the mixture

Of mash and tears

Trying in vain to quench the thirst of Pandemonium!

Fill your golden chalice

We’ll be drinking our own health

As crooked crosses rise up from the dust.

 

Fairies continue the dance of the night

Seven dances in Seven different colored robes

Fall at the feet of the crimson skeleton.

Mount the beast’s paw over the doorway

As we drown our sorrow again!