Is the Devil?


they fear the devil because they say he makes people do bad things 
but it isn't like that...
is not nice
is unamerican
is bad
is sick	sick
candy
	is circling back to the beginning to find what is most important: 
	that you are not here and missing 
	you while you are 
	still	here is 
	much more than 

	'i think'		[therefore]	the real thing

	you don't know 
	know only 
	that i can't forgive
	or don't want to
	want something 
	else
	like thirst and 
	hunger
	need or 
	'desire'

	you used to write
	in blood
	you used
			to be cool

...more like he makes you do things you wanted to do all along but were just afraid to and it could be 
bad, sure, depending on what you wanted, but it isn't necessarily so, now, is it?

is it
	a pentacle made of melted wax
					and red
it is	read
just as a cry 
is red
	help		

...so if you never knew what bad was there'd be no reason for you not to give it a try would there?  I 
mean, if you had no idea what death was and someone gave you the chance to die the only thing that'd be 
stopping you from giving it a try would be a fear of the un—

known 
too long
to long 
in silence
	your mouth fills,  
	smell of rust—		best 
	not to waste 		what could [?]
	kill you
	if you took 
	too much
			something endured but enduring nothing 
like a penance which, feeling, deserves you
		and you 		it
	which
	you used
			to be cool
		and now
you'll burn 
you'll burn	in hell
			which is a damned 
long
	time
				and they will say 	
				words, several
				and kind
				and all else
				they will not 
know how 
the story 
ends 
itself
		in flesh and bone
		and a spell 
when recited
incorrectly	(that is, unchecked—		)
					spells
disaster

...coming back to you, now?  or you to it?  something so far back it's as if it were never with you in the 
first place, and the devil, he lets you reach into that place—which place?  silly.  the first 

			one:
				to know 
				that returning is the most dangerous part
			two:
				to show the sign
			three:
				he's never home
			four:
				if he is
				you've made a mistake
			five:
				you must trust
				have faith in the faith—
	less—
	on
			
	and 		six:		six		sick					
candy

	more power than 
	you know
			you should be afraid
			and are
		not
			willing
	to
go dark to light  	go fear to light	go pain to light	go raw to light
go reach 		go wing 		go light
go off		go light	
				you will not go the answer is not said and you will not go you will not reach and seem as 
seem these hands a mediocre hue you think yourself you will not go and answer an answer unsaid not said and what the rules

what the rules
		what rule?			to know 
				the rule
 				and keep silent
the play
	the game is 
to take it
as one takes a photograph
				and does not allow 
to be taken	
		[serious like chess, 
		seriously...]

...it's something you owe to yourself, what i mean is you owe it to yourself to check yesterday's horoscope—
today's is useless, accuracy is only verifiable after the fact and if you don't know whether it's at all accurate, 
what good does it
				do you 
		know enough
to keep silent?

...isn't it funny how they grade assignments with red ink?  like it calls more attention to your mistakes if 
it's done in—
			read
		where the blood 
came from:	your tongue
						the one	
you bit
		and now 	it forks		
and now 		you only					
		whisper		in the ears
		while once	you wrote
		in blood 	and once
		you used	to be
	
cool
			to know
				and keep silent
				and is not nice
				and is unamerican
				and is bad 								
 				and is		sick		sick		six		
candy
and is... 
the devil?
		
Yessssss.