Zottegem (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzɔtəɣɛm]) is a municipality located in Belgium and more particularly in Flanders, in the province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Zottegem proper and the villages of Elene, Erwetegem, Godveerdegem, Grotenberge, Leeuwergem, Oombergen, Sint-Goriks-Oudenhove, Sint-Maria-Oudenhove, Strijpen and Velzeke-Ruddershove. On January 1, 2006, Zottegem had a total population of 24,548. The total area is 56.66 km² which gives a population density of 433 inhabitants per km².
Zottegem is crossed by two brooks, the Molenbeek in Grotenberge and Leeuwergem, as well as the Molenbeek-Ter Erpenbeek in Godveerdegem, Erwetegem, and Grotenberge.
With its beautiful nature Zottegem is part of the geographical area Vlaamse Ardennen (Flemish Ardennes) and the Denderstreek. There is also a little village in Zottegem Bevegem that was never a municipality before.
Simple, pure life, evoked
Gorged with, illness, disease
Mutate, hidden secrets
Transformed, life forms of death
Treachery constantly bleeds from me
Sinking deep in my seams morbidly
The minute attributes seeping through
Shifting and murdering mindlessly
Invade, attack, attract, assail
Inside, my life, in me, bleeding
Out of obscurity, into me physically, mentally
Invoking inwardly, involuntarily
Out of obscurity, into me physically, mentally
Invoking outwardly, involuntarily, tearing me fiendishly
Out in obscurity, into me physically, mentally
Invoking outwardly, involuntarily
Come into me, and spread the disease
And grow within me - your virus
I have become the vector of pain
Injecting in the amoeba
Mutating me, now I'm the disease
Contagion in me amoeba
Exit from me, mutant disease
Spout forth demise, topple all life
Agony breeds in me freely