[SHMANBOT.] Phallus aforethought Endowed by my creator with what I would not choose for myself This gendered curse will turn for worse Gynandromorphic Trapped in a body This earthly hell, this prison of my own flesh Identities and binaries They do not match Trigger the dysphoria Tiresias rising For once I must embrace myself at last To mine own self be true To mine own truth be self Social constructions Will not dictate my future or my past To thine own self be true To thine own truth be self Stand up and scream it: I am both. I am not one.

[SPYRIDON.] Stabilization of a space anomaly Amplification of the harnessed energies Acceleration to unmatched velocities Recalculation of the final destination where it leads Burn both ends of the candlelight But there’s no easy way out, no They all said that it couldn’t be done, but it could They all said that it shouldn’t be done, but it should They all said it was wrong, they were wrong, ‘cuz it’s right They all said that I shouldn’t play God, but I will They all said that I wouldn’t be God, but I AM Burn both ends of the candlelight But there’s no easy way out Decades lost to the sands of time But this is where they pay out Now they pay out.

[THE ROYAL ARCHIVIST.] On distant worlds, so long ago Three precious stones were forged With mystic powers the likes of which were never seen before And out of fear, they disappeared Secreted away Far away The prophets old who long foretold A hero from the sky With silver skin, and void within Which the magic stones could lie And at the final hour, when all was lost He’d fall to earth at any cost To save all of our souls on Judgment Day [THE ROYAL ASTRONOMERS.] Naively I had always hoped This day would not arrive But all good things must come to end At some point in our lives For I have sensed an evil force And we lie square within its course And if we don’t act today, tomorrow dies [THE WAILING CHORUS OF THE DEPARTED.] Join us. [THE KING OF XYZZYX.] The reaper calling out our names Beckoning us to an early grave As autumn quickly fades to gray We must defy him.   [DEATH.] The sun becomes black as sackcloth of hair and the moon becomes blood red Who will give account to those who stand ready to judge the quick and the dead? Woe, woe, woe, to all those who dwell on the earth! Sound the seven trumpets. Woe, woe, woe, to all those who dwell on the earth! Of the last days they prophesied Of the impending omnicide Of a whole planet vaporized Of a whole species victimized Of the time of total destruction [THE KING OF XYZZYX.] Now listen close, for time is short We haven’t none to lose That creature of whom the sages spoke That hero… he is you The neverafter, the last disaster I hear its final call Save us all The reaper calling out our names Beckoning us to an early grave As autumn quickly fades to gray We must defy him.

Welcome aboard the interplanetary Starship Incontinence Set the course for stars unknown Intrepid explorers who fly through space alone The planets spin, nebulae swirl In search of the gems to save the world The reckoning we must avoid So plunge us into the void So journey now, unto the breach We sow the seeds that we must reap Every impediment surmountable and every obstacle Nothing’s impossible, we are unstoppable (Don’t stop us now) With the first link the chain is forged Clank of the hammer, forge the sword And on my command we set the course On my command we set the course for Uranus, maximum warp She’s so beautiful, gliding through the water God’s own prototype, sailing through the sky Bright and luminous, like a supernova Too unique to live, yet too rare to die I am the space commander The captain of you all Second star to the right, straight on ‘til morning And let slip the dogs of war And then we shall travel as spacetime unravels And boldly go where no shman has gone before She’s impregnable, gliding through the water Goddess grace in flight, soaring through the sky Like a cataphract, in his shining armor Not afraid to live, not afraid to die And in these moments which try our souls Tiresias rises, ascendant in droves And even after death strikes our names Forever immortal our legends remain And our glory will outshine the sun.