Evil Rests Its Case

By: John Grey
September 9, 2008

How smug the face.
How relaxed the body
slumped into his easy chair.
His red lips
bite gently on
on a cigarette.
His talons struggle
to light a match.

So much for darkness, terror,
the ghouls cruising
the nerve-ends
of our imaginations.
Smoke issues
from his mouth,