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I Met a Red Devil

I met a red devil
and said, "Tell me your name."
"My name," it replied,
"is You-Are-to-Blame."

I said, "Those are the words
I tell myself every day.
Now that I know your name,
I can send you away."

Then the red devil screamed,
but it had to depart.
And the scream echoed on
for a while in my heart.

In FlightA. pays the seven dollars for a beer,
the flight attendant takes his twenty
and says that she will bring change shortly.
He pops the top and pours the beer with care,

waits for the foam to go. With seatbelt tight
and armrest lost to someone on his right,
he can barely move. He is snug as his son
in a denim carrier on his chest all those

years ago, and as content. He is safely
out of touch, can do nothing for anyone,
nor be asked to. He can lift his plastic cup.
He can sip beer through the remaining foam.

He can lower the cup. He can do no more,
so lets himself feel no more need be done.
Alone a while, and glad to be alone -

Serenity

Slipped into sometimes,
Easily or not so easily.
Restful, yet more than rest,
Eclipse of the glare of stress.
Needed and sometimes found -
If it should draw near, it is best
To tell serenity
Yes

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Proper Relationship of Teethby *RichardLeach

Traditional Art / Collage

We all know how important it is.

Paper and film collage on playing card.

*pmaeck May 7, 2010

This piece, like all your work, is charged with utter hilarity and tempered - shot through, really - with cracked bluesy horror. Perhaps horror is too strong. Maybe just bluesy. No, it is horror because it's verging on the wildly chaotic and that's horrible to a lot of people. But it's tolerable rising to riveting because it's so whimsical and antic.

*RichardLeach May 7, 2010 Professional Traditional Artist

Hey Peter, you just made my day, what a great comment and high words of praise! "Cracked bluesy horror" - I may have to use that in my C.V.!

It's good to meet you, I've seen you at Crina's place. Thanks so much for coming by and watching me. I just watched you back, and I'll drop by your gallery very soon.

~DroopingSanityFences Dec 31, 2009

Funny and visually a winner!

*RichardLeach Dec 31, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

What a great compliment, thanks so much!

~fredfree Dec 26, 2009

argghhh! don't remind me - i have a dentist appointment in a week!
nice!

*RichardLeach Dec 26, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

if only we could avail ourselves of the services of our kind deviant dentists!

thanks - and good luck at the appointment!

~fredfree Dec 27, 2009

thanks - it's just a cleaning, but they always throw guilt trips at me! and no toys at the end either!

*RichardLeach Dec 27, 2009 Professional Traditional Artist

*privatedanser is a pediatric dentist, she told =eintoern one day that if he came to her clinic and was good she would give him a spider-man sticker!

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sticker!

~fredfree Dec 28, 2009

i want to go there!

~privatedanser Dec 25, 2009

the title made me laugh. when i saw the collage too. great Richard !

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