This Poem was Submitted By: Doris C. Swearingen On Date: 2000-05-20 06:57:18 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Devil's Statistician

The nephews heard the ominous voice chanting hallelujahs and amens before he rounded the bend of Jake's Run Road. They scattered like buckshot from a smoking gun barrel. Uncle Enoch, local holiness preacher, Devil's statistician, writing in his little book every hell-bound sin they committed. Just punishment, he said, pinching young Adam's naked skin until it bruised purple. Caleb, alone, gasping for breath,  claustrophobic in the dark fruit cellar. Noah fought back, spat in the pious face. Revenge was a black razor strap cutting wide red ribbons across his back. Enoch's black book statistics never figured twelve-year old Noah shooting him dead in a nearby cornfield. Laughing when they found six black crows picking at his body two days later.

Copyright © May 2000 Doris C. Swearingen


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