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Poetry Demon

By Cathy Buburuz
(with accompanying illustration by Marge Simon and Cathy Buburuz)

She bleeds ink,
drips psychotic rivers
of rushing lost words...

Tis crimson soul
on ivory parchment

...and somewhere far
a throat opens, swallows deep
her poison poetry.


© 2001 Cathy Buburuz.
Illustration © 2001 Cathy Buburuz and Margaret Ballif Simon.
All Rights Reserved.

Poem originally appeared in Prisoners of the Night #3.

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