7.25.2010

Personage

Ignore the Devil's understudy
scowling from the corner.
The clouds over his head
are the same ones over yours.

But beware of the man with only one gun;
he probably knows how to use it.

What's with that yelp we hear through the walls?
It's safe to say she's not singing opera.

And what are the lines? What are the lines?
Where is the script and the poor slob who wrote it?

The nurse shook her head at the sight of my veins
as I sang to myself, "What a wonderful world..."

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