Audience With Stripycoat

from Arx Pilosa by Bob Drake

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Excavating restricted Roman ruins, evidence was uncovered
revealing the staggering truth of why and for whom
the Vatican had been constructed and what still inhabits its gardens

It was not for any pontiff, contrary to popular belief
no, they were made for the fabulous beast
which a bumbling occultist summoned to our plane,
then refusing to begone,demanded this outlandish palace
and garden be built for it.
In return it would provide "services" of a kind I would rather not mention.

So they built it the Torre Leonina, and a plexus of secret courtyards and cortiles. Hedges of aromatic shrubberies mask the alien pong of its pelt (its spotty pelt) from detection (it’s also stripy) by the unauthorized rabble.

Audience can be obtained (for those sincerely devoted),
The entrance is marked with THE SIGN (for those who can recognise it)
Records show many have entered (over the centuries)
The departures page curiously blank...

If you've inexplicable yearnings this fate should be yours,
traverse the gallery of inscriptions, pass the cabinet of masks
At the shuttered balcony, thrice make the sign;
the one-way portal shall be opened for an instant–
Quickly step inside and the statues will cry, knowing what's to come,
powerless to avert their perpetual gaze.

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from Arx Pilosa, released November 1, 2016

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