Introduction:- Kinsella showed her love to Satan

and dared to speak her mother's tongue.

 

(i) Kinsella in Hades.

 

Kinsella discovered a box

and lifted the lid, looked down

to find she was naked.

 

Aghast! Open- mouthed!

She peeled the sticky letters

away from her tongue and

pasted them on a note to the devil.

 

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(ii) The Devil's Lair.

 

At first the devil eschewed her mortal deed

but then a serpent rose from deep within him.

It reared it's magnificent head

and danced to the devil's tune.

A beady eye on this daring creature,

paralysed Kinsella where she stood.

 

Surveying the land and his target, he

masticated, metered and measured,

ejaculated his serum then slowly

re-coiled back inside the devil's womb.

 

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(iii) Death

 

Alas! The serum was too strong,

Kinsella's heart was frail.

She dropped to her knees

struck down -  dead!

Her soul sent reeling back

to some inter-galactic cave.

 

Her shroud of gold organza

a flimsy veil of protection

against

the bitter truth of his disdain.