Name: Your Insect
Duration: P00H02M20S
Description: Have you attempted the pilgrimage to the Western Lands? Perhaps you heard this song huddled with other pilgrims round a bonfire on the outskirts of Waghdas.

Your Insect

from Choose What's Real by Cthulhu Brothers

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Have you attempted the pilgrimage to the Western Lands? Perhaps you heard this song huddled with other pilgrims round a bonfire on the outskirts of Waghdas.

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How many legs has your insect got?
Is it six or eight or forty-three?
If it's less than ninety-nine
It's not enough for me, my boys
It's not enough for me

How does your insect kill its prey?
Does it bite or sting or suffocate?
If it doesn't use its forcipules
It's quite inadequate, my boys
It's quite inadequate

What made those marks across your chest?
Was it rats or wasps or velvet ants?
If it wasn't many venomous legs
You get no second glance, my boys
You get no second glance

What looks out behind your eyes?
Is it dog or bat or albatross?
If it isn't ancient centipede
Your insect's a dead loss, my boys
Your insect's a dead loss

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from Choose What's Real, released April 16, 2021
A MacKinnon

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