No Bargain

 

“Mephistopheles”
By Eugene Delacroix

 

 

promises were made
inducements assured
or he wouldn’t have died
let his sacrificed soul
slip so easily into that
charred scaly pouch

so much for the contract
of blood by Theophilus
what the hell has this
damned old world come to
when you can’t even trust
in a deal with the devil

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“I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.” – Camille Claudel

 

 

From my book Onionskin