Dionysus

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Dionysus: Now then, don’t be silly

Your attitude so chilly

Right from the start,

I knew your heart

That you have poisoned--

Scarlet: Your riddles to none pertaining

Have just got me complaining

Now go to bed

And bump your head

Don’t speak until it’s raining

Dionysus: I won’t speak. Your etiquette when you banquet is not for me to judge. Just know this. I govern who dies and who lives. Your guilt is not for you to give.

Scarlet: ‘Tis madness, what you’re doing here,

Wild ecstasy amasking fear

The dancing ones who hence would flee

Do twist and burn within your glee

This wine saturation conflagration

Intoxication of a nation

Community without filtration

‘Tis madness, don’t you see?

Dionysus: And madness, He is me

Scarlet: Society without its bounds

Makes Slaves unto that Bacchic Clown

Dionysus: The hardest heart is first to drown

And most stubborn crown first underground.

So gone you’ll be

And take you she

[points to Miss Peacock]

Lest this end in tragedy

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