2. The Golden Chalice

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Alice wasn't too fond with the concept of prayer and religion

She always fancied it to be blatant fiction or mere superstition

But her parents always warned her about being damned into submission

Where if you didn't listen and follow tradition you'd burn in the Devil's Kitchen


So when the priest commenced the wedding to begin

She felt her skepticism burn as deep as her supposed sin

The priest had white beady eyes that traced about the hills

And wore a stern face that gave Alice the chills


'We gather here today to wed Sarah and Dick,

Their love so intimate and infinite like arithmetic,

Where God will now and forever protect them and their future family

To gallantly give them gravity in their new lives through this baptistry...'


Alice grew bored very quickly with the priest's rambling oration

Lost in translation she decided to dream about foreign nations  

And ended up gazing at the church's stained glass windows

Becoming immersed in the shadow of its legends and heroes


'I'm going bonkers and at this point would rather be in Yonkers getting chased by fire-breathing monsters or getting dissected by rainbow-colored doctors!

I need to get out of this room before I fuckin bust a vein and go insane like Mary Jane on some cocaine while poppin gold champagne like King Charlamagne ridin on a lion's mane through a whirlpool of bloody stains and severed brains...'


Alice felt a rush inside propel her out of the sectioned pew

Her legs became robotic and marched towards the confession booth

Mother and Father didn't even take a glance to notice what was happening

And Alice questioned her own curiosity to see if she was merely imagining   


When Alice walked past the curtain she sat in silence

Deserted and isolated in darkness like the Pacific Islands

But from the corner of her eye, she detected a shimmer of light

Golden bright as if soaked in Herme's cosmic twilight 


She picked it up in awe and realized it was a chalice

And although beautiful - seemed to possess a certain malice

Alice pondered why it would be sitting there alone in the dark

But then was distracted by the goblet's intricate art


On further inspection, she noticed it was filled with red wine

That sat so peacefully it must've rained from Cloud Nine

In a hazy gaze her senses sank and her mind grew blank

With her plump lips kissing the rim as she soothingly drank...


Once she lowered the glass from her mouth and brought it down to her chest

She felt a grizzly roar rumble through her intestines and tickle her breasts

All of a sudden in front of her very own eyes

Arose a door to the Land of All Pies...


It was like a portal to another world of infinite magnificent dimensions

Where dreams lived on and fantasies spewed out like nocturnal emissions 

Alice looked back only once to her monochrome dull reality,

And merrily stepped into the realm of flamboyant fantasy...









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⏰ Last updated: Jun 06, 2017 ⏰

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