Battle Hymn of the Dionysian Underground

Let’s go Pan

Let’s go pagan

Let’s wake up Her Majesty with Michael Fagan

Let’s reinvent the art of the urban shaman

Throw a wild party in the wrecked heart of Babylon

Let’s make a magic potion

Brew it in a cauldron

Reawake the snake

Make poetry in motion

Let’s go night tripping skinny dipping in the ocean

Let’s go pink

Let’s go punk

Let’s smile for the camera with a mouth full of spunk

Shadow-box with angels until we punch-drunk

Let’s get feathered

Let’s get furred

Let’s shake a hoof with the horny goat-herd

Raise the roof and let fly the bird

Let’s go Pan

Let’s go primal

Let’s do the Old God Man Shamanic Revival

Catch-as-catch-can and scratch-scratch it on vinyl

Let’s go Trickster

Let’s go Tantra

Let’s bang a gong and do a Bhagavati Mantra

Paint our bodies red and blue create a living Yantra

Let’s advance

Let’s retreat

Let’s trance dance to a tribal break beat

Let’s do it all night

Let’s stir up and shake up

Give ourselves a fright when we take off our make-up

Love-bite the Sleepers until they finally

Wake up!

© John Constable >><< Crow

John Constable >><< Crow is a playwright, poet and shaman. His plays include Black Mas and Tulip Futures. He adapted Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast for the stage (David Glass Ensemble at the Lyric, Hammersmith). His verse epic, The Southwark Mysteries, was channelled - received from the spirit of a ‘Winchester Goose’, a medieval prostitute licensed by the church in Southwark. It was performed in Shakespeare's Globe and Southwark Cathedral, and has featured on radio and TV Arts documentaries. The Southwark Mysteries and John’s Sha-Manic Plays are published by Oberon Books.

More of his Poetry appears in SilKMilK MagiZain s p o o l # 2