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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #2060507
...it is waiting...just ahead. Come closer.
SOME DEVIL (18 lines)

some devil, incarnate,
smooth skin,
or something very like it,
pulling back from
its diseased smile

its wizened arm,
like a dead branch
from an uprooted tree,
reaching, in vain,
toward he-who-is-next

its fingers, flexing open and closed,
the cramp that will not go away

the line is sluggish,
the ancient clerk,
some devil,
certainly,
the DMV,
some hell.

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