THE DEVIL WINKED
Walkin I was
Down the street alone , but peopled block
there were people everywhere like mardigras only.. different.
Walking I was when I saw , she saw me seeing
we were sighting each other like rifles
Gorgeous she was Gorgeous my eyelids
closed to pray to
God she was beautific angels must look like she looks at me
looking at me she was still and my knees paid homage by trembling mouth dried, lick my lips I tried not working my tongue was but tried I did anyway and she’s still looking I’m not walking anymore stopped I must have body’s not quite right.
And smoke she blew from between lips like whetted blades; dangerous but seducing to a warrior.
She blew smoke from between lips concealing beckoning depths- where’s the cigarette? Matter, does it matter
HELL YEAH it mattered! she blew smoke lacking cigarette both hands are holding nothing winter time it’s not yet she blew/blows smoke from between demonic lips
and the Devil winked
Walking I am again I’m walking now, FASTER than I was, but walking nonetheless
My knees tremble now for different reasons
the Devil winked at me, she did, as smoke she blew from between lips of deceiving grandeur. Angels really must like this look for she was [Lucifer!] was before he became it and winked
Faster take me faster from this place
Mistake I made couldn’t tear my eyes away from that when the Devil winked
in that instant but a second it was, long enough to last an eternity, it will
I saw, she made me see glimpses of nightmarish descents into the sub-cellar of Madnesses’ playground it was INSANE almost drove me
That one blink but a wink it was but it let me know
Savage Christian I now am in church EVERY day couldn’t be Catholic
Have to I’d go to [never!] confession
But in church I sit
stoutly pray I do every Sunday I am from now til whenever
I will for I saw the Devil wink I did walk fast I tried
sleep I couldn’t weeks after cuz the Devil winked and
I pray it doesn’t drive me out
of my mind…
11.25.96