Lawrence Hall, HSG
Orgiastic Screaming from Below
Those who called for Nonsense will find that it comes
-C. S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength
We have seen Milton’s Pandaemonium
Choreographed on a wide palantir
Fallen angels praising the Great Fallen One
In a High Council of electrified lies
Great thunderings of fire and rolling smoke
Issuing from a shiny plastic throne of power
The Great Fallen One framed in Elvis lights
On the floor the lesser ones screaming in ecstasy
The Great Fallen One has a plan for us
After all the balloons, too, have fallen
[Allusions to C. S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength, Milton's Paradise Lost, and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings]
