The devil works at Norman Rockwell and he wrote the blueprints to suburban paradise.


The angels by his side fill our homes with the same designs and their fingers stretch into rocking chairs,
draining our lifeforce.
I can smell the sulfur on him when invited so graciously into your home.
God ******.
He didn't even need to ask to be let in.

I am screaming silently into a wall while they are draining their glasses,
laughing at jokes told a thousand times before.

The comedy of man.
The tragedy of man.
Aren't they the same thing?

The cheers at clones in suits preaching promised lands
turn to static and I am sick of trying to block the noise.

"If you dance with the devil, the devil won't change, the devil changes you."

...but perhaps I can learn a few moves from and wait for his feet to stumble...