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Smoking Sixes

from Devil's Blues by Joy

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Slow leak in a subtle lie
In a rumor relayed
By way of a shadow
Her skirt slyly made
Displayed between legs and station stop and fates

She’s a slick secret-keeper
With a secret smile

Devil growling through the hum of the engine that conveyed her
Buttoned up her lip but left smoking sixes that betrayed her

Room filled with murky light
With sulfurous sweat
That yellowed the promise
And ran down the bed
Left a mysterious and solemn debt

She shows the whites and grays
Curtains all pulled back

Devil tapping on the glass
Red as rust with purple edges
Wrote them backwards in the frost,
Smoking sixes hot and deathless

Devil aching in my heart
Buzzards following the spent love
Burning trail of toil and doubt
Smoking sixes all undreamt of

Devil dreaming f the tree
When ruin flickered through the branches
And we flickered, too
For a while in that shade

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from Devil's Blues, released June 13, 2005

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