An original work, inspired by a passage in Canto VI of Les Chants de Maldoror - most likely the Dutch translation: "O Octopus, with silken stare! You, whose soul is inseparable from mine; you, the most beautiful of inhabitants on the globe..."
The chapter goes on to describe how Maldoror has transformed himself into an octopus to torment God, who's screams of agony cascade forth as a plague of serpents, let loose on humanity.
"I applied my four hundred suction cups to the hollow of his armpit, making him utter such terrible screams... screams which changed into vipers as they left his mouth, and went into hiding in the undergrowth and under ruined walls, alert all day, alert all night."