The Devil is a Magistrate, a Doge, a Chevalier

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https://youtu.be/4WIdwBGUvnI

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The devil is a magistrate devoted to Hell’s volupté –

asks (as any worthy god would do) to sink your

eye into his own; fall deep into the flaming iris,

feel its molten waterfall replenishing despairing

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vacancies of dwindling self: to take you past

incendiary agonies into unseemly bliss:

and pleasure's to be had in this grand gaze,

this kiss that's only deadly to the hope of ever

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seeing sunrise anymore. A loss? The Doge

of Darkness tells you No: implores you to take

in the cinnamon red rapture of his dying sun,

so very much more beautiful than any one

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of many dawns you'll never see again. The devil

is a chevalier of random causes, offering a panoply

of lethal choices: all of which exact a toll but none

of which much matter to the murdered soul.

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