Issue # 10 August 2011
Lonnard Dean Watkins
Damn Him

Damn
him!
What is
his true name?
Some call him Satan,
the Dark Lord, the Fallen Angel.
Is Beelzebub how I should greet him if he appears?

 

So
raise
your glass
in a toast
with devil's water,
let us all get drunk, damn the world
and all those who condemn us – those that look down on us!

 

We
spurn
all blame,
aspersions
against our good names.
Blame him! – him! Whatever his name.
We have no will of our own – the blame is his, not ... ours