THIS GUITAR

this electric guitar
is singing, screeching
to high Heaven

and the Devil has
promised me a woman

before
I be baked in an oven
roasted in a furnace
reduced to
sentient ash
doomed to suffer forever
the flames
of an intense fire

and this
as fair, reasonable
payment for her beauty,
such beauty
your beaity

creature created to
define and express inner
and outer
the entire limits
of desire

Published by Damian Garside