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(I felt the demons crawling up my legs
this morning,
but I didn’t say anything because
I had company)
“Alright, Bev, we’re back.”
Clarence bowed to me.
“You got us this time, honey.”
Judith, the only visible one in the room,
smiled at me but I still felt
the poison.
“We have a job for you.”
Bruce wasn’t the least bit
reluctant.
After all, he was strictly
business.
(Blood trickled down the voids
their black fingernails left behind,
but I was needed,
and that just seemed to heal
the wound)
((I was needed.))
