5.26.2013

THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA

The devil came down here to Georgia, alright,
when he tempted the Pine tree
to throw its cones at me,

& it worked, except that I caught two of them
with my bare hands,
& the devil hated it, & he ran

off into swine,
& I said, while yawning & stretching: 

I am in control of this four-way joystick of temptation

get behind me, Satan!
—that flaming form
of voyeurism—the idea of being too scholarly
to the point of being unaware of the outside world

from a bird
s eye view,
may ring with gongs of truth.
The devil came down here to Georgia, alright,

& he got a dose of his own medicine—
I have re-named him, Untitled.
I
m as free as a bird, as free as a bird.




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