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EL DIABLO
There he is is stuck behind the counter, zit-faced
Counting numbers, stats, beans and lemons
There he is crushed by time's stringency, office-hours
Skin like finely crafted boutique leather
There's our precious little boy, a total original
Quiet in the supermarket, smooth before the kill-switch
He is all these things, waving his black magic wand
Make you turn from your own self, swindled
With his Undeniable Proof, hidden wings and hint of horns
With his scrubbed-clean hands on the wrecking ball
He's an old enemy, a newbie knee-jerk nihilist
A box-eyed, easy answer-man, there he is
In a white room where hands mingle with light whispers
The kind coroners use to illuminate a corpse
He is the farmer tilling his soil while blackbirds sing
And worms prepare
For a feast as wives bite their fingernails and argue
With their husband's fair-weathered friends
He is the driver of the meat wagon
He is the guy that gets out and changes the flat
When a tire pops on the road during the night-shift
He is the night-shift
Chris D'Errico, Italian-American Futurist, is best known for his failed attempt to overthrow the Rotary Club of Westborough, Massachusetts during an assembly meeting inside Papa Gino's Pizzeria. The incident occurred during the lunch rush on August 8, 1989. It has since become known as the Salad Bar Putsch.
He is the author of the books Putsching For Dummies and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coup d'Etat..
