Love
and light
and rain
but not rehabilitation,
(and never another drink)
but there is man who used to come here
and he said he’d seen the devil come as a red-haired woman
who must have been beautiful when she was younger,
but she looked hard now.
She brought another man drinking alone in a corner a newspaper
and in that newspaper was the obituary of the man’s ex-wife.
The devil,
she led the guy out by the hand
while he cried and laughed and then cried again,
and neither of them looked back.
The devil can bring you love and light and rain
but never another drink
and shit man, it’s wearing her out too.
and light
and rain
but not rehabilitation,
(and never another drink)
but there is man who used to come here
and he said he’d seen the devil come as a red-haired woman
who must have been beautiful when she was younger,
but she looked hard now.
She brought another man drinking alone in a corner a newspaper
and in that newspaper was the obituary of the man’s ex-wife.
The devil,
she led the guy out by the hand
while he cried and laughed and then cried again,
and neither of them looked back.
The devil can bring you love and light and rain
but never another drink
and shit man, it’s wearing her out too.
The End
Steve Passey is from Southern Alberta. He is the author of the collections
Forty-Five Minutes of Unstoppable Rock (Tortoise Books), Cemetery Blackbirds (Secret History Books), the novella Starseed (Seventh Terrace) and many other, individual things.
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