A
ghazal by Mike Barney
Sartre was half-right. Hell is other people. Heaven,
as well. The trick is telling who is what, and why . . .

The secret of success for ventriloquists:
Having a dummy with an independent

compelling personality. This explains that
classic still boffo act-God and Satan.

Having an arid creed, the wish for true faith of the
skeptic, the terrible feeling that death changes nothing.

Fat and fifty, broke and alone, scribbling these
Frivolous verses. My life is now perfect.

Ghazal 9. Ten
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