Victorian Violet Press


I Have a Crush on the Devil

I have a crush on the devil, teehee!
It’s wrong, but those horns just do something to me,
that little mustache, the seductive goatee.

I’ve got a crush on Beelzebub, dash it!
That arrow-tipped tail of his has such panache; it
would make a nice whip. I like watching him thrash it.

I’ve got a longing for Lucifer, darn it!
There’s something about all that Evil Incarnate,
his naked red skin like a shimmering garnet.

I’ve got a school-girlish thing for Hell’s King,
infernal, eternally barbecuing!
The respectable angels just haven’t his zing.


(first published in Light Quarterly)




Rose Kelleher


Rose Kelleher's poems have appeared in many print and
online journals, most recently The Flea, River Styx, and The
Raintown Review. Her first book, Bundle o' Tinder, won the
2007 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize and is available from
Waywiser Press.









Art~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti