PERSON Poem: Say Hello to the Devil!, by Patrick Bruskiewich

The Big Mean Welderbeast charged
at maiden and man alike, it did not care
Its eyes blared white with rage!
Get out of my way, I am coming through
… it dropped its nose … I will not stop for you.
So the crowd scattered, all except one,
a matador who was not afraid
of the monster. He stood his ground,
But still the creature bore ahead
until at the last possible second it came
to an abrupt halt, mere centimetres
from Don Quixotic. Its eyes blared
white with rage! It snorted, it roared …
I’m coming through … get out of my way!
But the matador stood his ground!
The Blasted Mechanical Wallywodge*
owned the road … it did not care
that steel was pitted against bone,
muscle, soft sinew. They could wash the
blood off the hood, and straighten the dents.
Its eyes blared white with rage! But it had
stopped – the best of Bremen Motor
Werks had stopped. It honked. It hollered.
Its eyes blared white with rage! Then the
Matador bowed and said, next time
don’t stop – I’ll end up your ornament
… hood … say hello to the devil!

* wally means foolish, wodge means thing.

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