fall 2018 / Poetry 2018 / volume 49

The Devil—Sarah Brown Weitzman

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Why did the old masters portray
the devil as ugly?

He’s really quite handsome.

And why has he been assigned
so many odd names

like Lucifer, Satan,
and Beelzebub

when he has an ordinary name
like Richard?

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