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Demonologue


This morning from his bed Sir
I led him to a little blue bird

That hovered like a wingless tin thing
He slapped it from above him to the dirt

Took it in hand and saw
It wasn't a bird but a big mosquito

With her face it was sick
He thought it must be thirsty

And then brought the thing to his breast

Sir I know incontinence of the body

But of the soul what giving more sorry
Than to the thing itself would suckle him


-Jeff Clark

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