Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival Sentence Meme
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Shovel And Bone ❝ Always Alleluia. ❞ ❝ Want a bloody cast-off? ❞ ❝ Break the lion, catch his tail. ❞ ❝ Four! Then twenty blackbirds fall. ❞ ❝ All your dreams are Heaven sent. ❞ ❝ Cast out your skin, fat to the feast. ❞ ❝ Surrender your wool and your kin to the beast. ❞ ❝ Down the throat of alleluia, spoil an empty God. ❞ ❝ With each crumb that’s offered another mouth springs. ❞ ❝ Black breath hissed across the faces of dear departing souls. ❞ ❝ Black crows feeding on the face of a dear abandoned boy, fighting for a taste with the flies. ❞
All Aboard! (Everybody’s Doing the Ark) ❝ All aboard! ❞ ❝ Let’s make believe! ❞ ❝ Everybody’s doing the ark! ❞ ❝ We filled our hearts with praise. ❞ ❝ All aboard! Noah said all aboard! ❞ ❝ Shall we show them how it’s done, ladies? ❞
Only By Design ❝ How will you dress for the party? ❞ ❝ Every turn is lief to the grand motif. ❞ ❝ Days of rose and twine are only by design. ❞ ❝ Days of ours and thine are only by design. ❞ ❝ Every hallway paned, every window stained, every frame aligned. ❞ ❝ There’s a serving cap, and a pail and a post to call if you earn your place at the ball. ❞
Good Little Dictation Machines ❝ See how we dictate of you! ❞ ❝ Fidelity’s the gristle of invention. ❞ ❝ Innovating ways to make you talk! ❞ ❝ Listen back to your domestication. ❞ ❝ Rid yourself of every hiss and hoarse. ❞ ❝ Bolt your words and measure your intentions. ❞ ❝ The days of breaking hands with words are gone. ❞ ❝ Cutting conversation, every tongue in harmonation! ❞ ❝ Once there was a time you needed transcripts, in triplicates and duplicates to log. ❞
Cloud Serenade ❝ I’m just a fool in love. ❞ ❝ I’m just a fool in love but I’d be a fool not to be. ❞ ❝ All the stars dance and sing as I pluck at the strings. ❞
Down at the Midnight Rectories ❝ Am I low enough daddy? ❞ ❝ Gimme two alleluias and an amen. ❞ ❝ Loosen the collar right up to the scruff. ❞ ❝ Surrender yourself doll, get down on your knees. ❞ ❝ Remember the garden, the twig, and the snake now. ❞ ❝ Strike the wrong chords, the ones we can’t dance on. ❞ ❝ The peacocks are strutting behind velvet ropes, sipping away on their heavenly dope. ❞
The Watchword’s Hour ❝ It all began with a dame. ❞ ❝ Restless ears should hit the sack. ❞ ❝ He winds, he aims and takes his shot. ❞
Hitting On All Sevens ❝ Seven pillars by thy sword. ❞ ❝ Always hitting on all sevens. ❞ ❝ Make of me a subject bound. ❞ ❝ By the book, Seven pillars under latch. ❞ ❝ By the book, always seven written down. ❞ ❝ One by one has ordered, flank to flank, and facing forward. ❞ ❝ Make of me thy subject, Lord placed according to thy word. ❞ ❝ Hanging by the word, in chapter, verse, and sentence heard. ❞ ❝ Make of me a subject cast, pressed and kept beneath thy glass. ❞
Fair Game ❝ Give us a prayer! ❞ ❝ My! Aren’t we a hiss? ❞ ❝ Where is your heaven now? ❞ ❝ Where is our heaven hiding? ❞ ❝ Where is your heaven hiding? ❞ ❝ Truce, truce! Let’s make a vow. ❞ ❝ Aren’t we a darling, aren’t we a tell? ❞ ❝ Who is the drifter that sits in your chair? ❞ ❝ Spill all our dirties and kiss on the ground. ❞ ❝ Under our bruises don’t we look the same? ❞ ❝ Look at us friend when we share in the bliss. ❞ ❝ Who are you keeping? And who are we now? ❞ ❝ One hoof in the clouds, and one down the well. ❞ ❝ Why not take your chances and play for the miss? ❞
After the Fall ❝ Sinners one, Sinners all. ❞ ❝ Let us walk on stained glass. ❞ ❝ It’s always prettiest after the Fall. ❞ ❝ Let us swing with both fists, as we writhe in the blood. ❞ ❝ We gnaw on the bone, uptown they sprinkle sweetener. ❞ ❝ A gentleman prefers to dig in with his fingers, suck in through his teeth, and bare a hungry grin. ❞ ❝ A gentleman prefers to break from airs and fetters, to roll off his sleeves, and liberate the Beast. ❞
Bells of Black Sunday ❝ Black is the Sunday. ❞ ❝ Country dogs lack common sense. ❞ ❝ After a fall, I lifted my wings out of mercy. ❞ ❝ They beg for a good ol’ song like a dog for crust. ❞ ❝ How is my heart so forgiving? My kindness could swallow you whole. ❞ ❝ How is my song so beguiling? These pipes, they could swallow you whole. ❞ ❝ Pluck the seeds of evil by rake and by fist lest bells of The Black Sunday toll. ❞ ❝ The wicked harvester tempted the Heavens, now broken and barren is his land. ❞
Hoof and Lap ❝ Some girls fall for fables, some fall just for kicks. ❞ ❝ To the hound, a round of hell on the devil’s carousel! ❞ ❝ A lady sits heart and legs crossed, as tight-lipped as a mouse. ❞ ❝ Bar the doors and thrash the hooves, let’s teach a dog new tricks. ❞ ❝ Though I’ve found when I lift my legs my hooves bring down the house. ❞
Songs of Old ❝ To the beat, I owe my soul. ❞ ❝ Like a salted pill, so easy to swallow. ❞ ❝ Tune here always, to the songs of old. ❞ ❝ I’m dancing to the tune of songs of old. ❞ ❝ I tremble like a treble, as the music starts. ❞ ❝ I’m faithful to the format as the music starts. ❞ ❝ It’s so easy, and breezy when the music starts. ❞
Alleluia ❝ Find in silver stars my role. ❞ ❝ All good children never fall. ❞ ❝ Born of blood and cast of wing. ❞ ❝ Lace my vest and mend my soul. ❞ ❝ All children of Heaven sing Alleluia. ❞
