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Someday Satan

John Gillen
Resistance Poetry

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Some days Satan offers you peace
Some days he kicks you right in the teeth
Some days he’ll talk
Some days listen
Some days he just goes along with tradition

Some days Satan walks the Earth
Some days he cancels a would-be birth
Some days he plans
Some days preaches
Some days he covers orphans with leeches

Some days he’ll jump and cut out runnin’
Some days you find him in a baker’s dozen
Some days he’s the White House
The Kremlin, Beijing
Some days he buys you a wedding ring

Some days he’s a skirt that wants to dance
Some days he’s the lust in a fleeting glance
Some days he’s the dessert
Some adrift on the sea
Some days he’s the Jester and others the King

Some days Satan comes down Main Street
Some days he teaches a student to cheat
Some days he’s a giant
Some days short
Some days he’s wearing a robe in court

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