Revitalize the unhallowed rite.
A blessing of blood to secure
this house from spirits
that have long since been abandoned
by modern man.

A girl or a boy or a black lamb,
Perhaps it is best to use a grown man.
With a full moon to light the way
the newborn to old and forgotten things
that once inspired man to worship,
in grand, forgotten, heretical gaiety,
is given.

A quick slice and the knife spills
her virgin blood into the gilded, guilty chalice.
Bury the corpse in a deep dug hole.
Consecrate the first stone.

None shall ever know what lies beneath the cornerstone.

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