Novena of Massacres

by Brett Rutherford

What does Our Lady drink?

Blood for Our Lady of Ogassagou in Mali

Blood for Our Lady of Orlando

Blood for Our Lady of Bataclan

Blood for Our Lady of Charleston

Blood for Our Lady of Peshawar

Blood for Our Lady of Sinjar

Blood for Our Lady of Bentiu

Blood for Our Lady of Gudele

Blood for Our Lady of Rabaa

Blood for Our Lady of Houla

Blood for Our Lady of Kandahar

Blood for Our Lady of Pibor

Blood for Our Lady of Uror

Blood for Our Lady of Utoya Island

Blood for Our Lady of Maguindanao

Blood for Our Lady of Fort Hood

Blood for Our Lady of Conakry

Blood for Our Lady of Virginia Tech

Blood for Our Lady of Capitol Hill

Blood for Our Lady of Andorra

Blood for Our Lady of Haditha

Blood for Our Lady of Shafram

Blood for Our Lady of Andijan

Blood for Our Lady of Beslan

Blood for Our Lady of Netanya*

What does Our Lady eat?

Our Lady eats the bodies of abandoned children.

Our lady eats the corpses of infidels.

Our Lady eats the hearts of heretics and apostates.

Our Lady eats the souls of believers

     and the souls on nonbelievers
     without distinction.

Our Lady can never stop eating

     as long as there are dead bodies around.

Our Lady adores cathedrals, temples

     and sacrificial shrines.

Our Lady is the Avatar of Chaos,

     awake in the pit of the Blackest Hole.

Our Lady snacks on Popes and preachers,

     gnaws prophets and holy men,

     molar-grinds dictators and Congressmen,

     oyster-chucks spy chiefs and Security lords.

But best of all she loves the killing field

     and the harvest of those
     who never did harm to anyone.
These are the souls she savors most.

Our lady is on a rampage

     and the hot wind spurs her on.
Her tresses trail forest fires, her feet
are adorned with the burst tires
of tractor trailers; diesel-breath,
coal-tar oozing from her hairy nostrils.

Her halo hangs on her Kalashnikov.

Veni, veni, she comes, she comes!

*[The reader may substitute the names of the 25 most recent massacres.]
For a list, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_events_named_massacres