Amplitude Modulation Abomination

Devil's recital.

I heard Satan speak, once, on a plastic AM radio

My head knocked to the clicks and pops between his

Divisive five word bursts, so well rehearsed,

Rolling like a curse with blessed living stitches

And harmonizing pitches that could woo a corpse

To dance Morse code in it’s cozy little coffin.

 

 

He sang a Jim Carroll voice with a Charles Bukowski Style

of William Blake visions for a William Boroughs mile

With an Edgar Poe Hook on a Sun Tzu tone,

And the way it had me feeling left a moaning in my bones,

 

He crooned a cool apocalypse like rubber rhythm snake,

I never dreamed that purgatory was a short commercial

 

 

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But he was right back quickly, as sure as impending death

Breathing battery powered symphonies like sex; the thrusts

Were a liquid flex of blazing text that unhinged my knees

And the trees were even swaying to the pattern of his

 

oratory

 

lustful glory that made my loins quake and long for fiery

 

lakes

 

 

But it faded to static as I hit the boarder of Florida and Alabama,

And I never turned back, my friends, for fear of becoming a pillar of salt.

 

 

Selah!

Amen!

Juju!

Sis-boom-bah!

And hail Saint such and so forth for good measure!

Author's Note

May people envy your shining grin until all of your teeth fall out from old age.

Reviews

[Viper9]

"While visions of Satan danced in their heads . . ."

Gotta say, your Satan's voice was unexpected. I kept trying to hear it in my mind's ear. Jim Carroll's voice+Bukowski's style+Blake vision+Burroughs mile=??? I like that. What's Burroughs' mile, though? Hmmmmm. That world-weary attitude of someone who's seen and done and fucked it all? Ha! that's Burroughs to me. Even in naked Lunch he comes across as, "Sigh. This s**t again."

Nice work!

[Jay Randall]

Woah, VERY cool...
One time I heard a man come across on a random CB channel that said he was Satan. He was full of tense reverb and hate. We asked him where he was located...he only came back across with a wicked laugh and then was gone. Of course, that was in Ohio but this still makes me fear ever hearing that voice again. Thanks for the nightmares Freder!