House of Paine

the abbey of desire

come 
  back with me again 
to the dawn of our era 

this time we’re stopping in 
 the roaring 1530’s 
of course we’re still  in Europe

time has past and 
the renaisance is flickering 
to an ever less 
 self assured gaudy  close 


 there has been too much upheaval  
nothing can be put back 
to what it was before 





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 for ten years 
it was all the rage to 
put the church in its proper place 

ban the fucking phoney 
 begging bowl and sackcloth 
 the monk scam
 the chastity shit 
  the father rack rent 
the bottomless collection plate
 the buy your ancestors 
and other dead loved ones
 out of purgatory tit twisters 

what a fucking performance 
well it had its judgement day 


now 
however there's
 one big exception to all this 
and it's " over at France "
as they say down south 

the renaissance is still abubbling 
in frog country 

   still   fat  
thanx to Francois the first
and his turkish leverage 

the french are not yet 
really  sucked into
their  own era morphing 
 whirl pool from hell 

that will come 
and soon too
but still for  now
 the land is merrie indeed 

the  Calvinic icicles 
 though forming are not yet 
falling on heads 

the countering blow torches
from the latin south
 not yet turned on 

Phillip the second 
long ahead 
and paul 4 too 

yes 
 a new pope
 has 
 hit the scene in 34 
but the prick 
still isn’t  in gear 

the debauched red eyed 
pox ridden junketeers
 that staff the holy see
in these twilight years 
of  art dance and sex 
are still drowning their memories in 
debauch 

  hiding from thoughts of 
 changed worlds north of the Alps 

where harsh facts  would seemingly dictate 
stuff like 

“ what the fuck  
 is happening here 
forget the seamless robe shit
we’re lucky
 we’re still in one piece 
  not roasting on pikes ”

but no 
for the holy joes 
its still strictly bottoms up 


fuck 
 six years earlier 
they almost got
 put out of biz
  once and for all 

mother of hell 

 40,000 of the most holy Emperor’s
 soldier boys 
ran completely amuk 
right there in the eternal city itself 

massacreeing
 raping looting
burning trampling 

just washing 
the piss out of 
the baptismal fonts 
and  the horse shit
 off the alters  
took 3000 pisans 
40 days and 40 nights 
 
 the troops  stopped at nothing
they wanted blood gold and pussy 
and they took blood gold and pussy 

FUCK  it got so close at one point 
the devines 
 had to hide 
pope Clement himself 
 up a donkey's ass hole 
just to keep him
 from the barbeque pit 



yes indeed 

 the sack of Rome 
( 1527)
 WAS A GLORIOUSLY WILD
 SENSELESS AFFAIR 
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but i stray  
we speak here of 
France  

 THE LAND STILL ABOUNDING 
IN UNCHALLENGED 
 chubbed up humanists

 and in particular we seek 
one of them 

the run away  monk
 turned mocker 
Rabelais the Great 

just now we find him  finishing 
 his second great volume of mock 

his first 
 Pantagruel 
has come out a year ago  
and to  acclaim of sorts

or so one  gathers 

at  any rate 
now in 34
 he’s putting the finishing bits 
on his prequal   to PANTAGRUEL 
 
 a new version  of the life and adventures 
of Pantagruel’s dad  Gargantua  

in paticular 
Gargantua 
 the great and generous giant 
after feats of war and wisdom beyond the range of men 
 thinks he might   King Henry style
 bestow   a  seized monastery or two 
  apon  his pal friar John
  it's to be 
 A REWARD FOR SERVICES RENDERED 
               
  but seems brother john 
as a well worn monk himself 
 is solidly agin
 a monastic gift 

he’ll have no part of a setup 
  operated in 
   the usual  church  way 
least of all one
 he has to  head up himself 

  so brother john 
asks GAR  to  design
 a new improved 
type of intentional community 

one just right 
for unattached  ladies and gents 
of the quality classes 

so Gargantua does
 JUST THAT


the result 
is kind of a rankless communal  Versailles

  funded from an endowment 
that produces 
a near bottomless
 gush of purchasing power 

  needless to say 
 its an anti  monastery
in all respects 
 
 Gargantua 
 names the  place 
 the abbey  Theleme 
the ABBEY OF DESIRE 

    ITS MOTTO 
 DO WHAT YOU WANT 
 
 need one say more
 
you see it don’t you 

here is without doubt 
the fucking demon hole
the spawning ground of 
all that is gentle and diseased in our world 
the vile caldron of superior spells 
we like to call 
the modern American university 

PREFIGURED BY 
dr rabelais 

and to think
 this one time jolly  antidote
 is today itself way over due 
for an  antidote 

 SUCH ARE  THE TWISTS OF TIME 

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in 1534
monasteries
 regular folks hated 

 like colleges and hospitals 
 today they were swill holes 
   
the secular preterite 
filled their toil soted minds 
with images of monkish hell-raising 

visions real and imagined 
of  clandestine orgiastic bouts

 of endless rounds of buggary
 torture and rapine

of lavish sumptuary gluts

monasteries were
 places where violations of all boundaries 
of  human decency  
were just for openers 
  
 fuck to the plebs these monks 
were   like space monsters 
are to trailer park wives  

one only needs view 
some of the nicely served up 
  woodcut wonders pumped out 
by  the ubiquitous
ma and pa  printing presses

 
  why I bring this up ?
 not toto add my little  whack  
to the father  FUCKBOY story
after all ladies
  is it really  so wrong 

they ‘re just 
the latest product 
of a long long dying
brand of  show biz
been to a local mass lately 
my god 
soon enough
these taudry lachromose 
grecian formula  shams  
  will be as passe 
 as vaudeville   

no I’m  passing on 
ST  NAMBLA 

I’m after 
the sons and daughters of
  humanism itself 

 the real latest fruits 
of the Renaisance 
and Enlightenment
those who would
 call themselves
Rabelais' children 

the inmates of the Abbey of DESIRE 

 today
 I’m  after  BURNING DOWN 
 the  earthly hell
created by
 these self righteous  parasites 

 the fancy ass ivy clad 
  academies 
and all the other 
culture   crowning
  melo dromes  
   of  burger king Empire 

i'm after those 
 dirty demure 
 piles of shit
 shot out of  
  corporate america’s 
ass hole 
those  jack off
 corn holing 
snatch sucking
do good  foundations 
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you read it here first folks 

 today i’m calling for 
 an anti university 
movement 

cause we need one 
as much as europe 
 needed an anti monastery 
movement   
in Rabelais time 

as George Wallace proved  
before  that fucking  schizo 
took all the fight out of him 
 “ these here big shot  pointy heads
  need  a good drowning 
right in the Potomac "

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 back to
 RABELAIS THE GREAT 
for one last look 

 given the impending 
world wide 
conflagration

hell
 given the already 
 well under way conflagration 

for starters 
given this 
GREAT AND GLORIOUS  
 CULTURAL REVULSION  
 sweeping 
 the whole  Muslim world today

given this
and all the other   
brake thru 
puke ups
of institutional rot 

given all this 
 going down 
 
WHY invoke Patagruel 
why invoke 
 RABELAIS 

well  

 when the last party is
ended

and the next one’s 
 not coming soon 

you got to strike out on a new path 
and you'll need to take along 

the 4 freedoms 

1 to be a nigger
2 to be a queer
3 to be an adict 
4 to be armed 

i know 
Rabelais would say 
go for it  

and 
pantagruel would agree 
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