by A.E. Stallings
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes,
The booze and the neon and Saturday night,
The swaying in darkness, the lovers like spoons?
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes?
Does he hum them to while away sad afternoons
And the long, lonesome Sundays? Or sing them for spite?
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes,
The booze and the neon and Saturday night?
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Snagged this gem of a poem from a mailing I got from Poetry Magazine. It seems like once you subscribe to a magazine, you are aggressively courted evermore. I want to support magazines, but how many times can The New Yorker or This Old House mail you a letter saying, "Last chance to subscribe at this rate!" There has to be a smarter way that no one has tapped into.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing this gem. Poetry magazine just got a $100 million endowment from the will of some heiress. The mag should be delivered free to everyone, everywhere!
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