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The Devil Smiles: Part 1I.
The first memory I have of my older brother is of him fishing me out of a pool. I don’t remember if I jumped in or if I was pushed—all I remember is I couldn’t swim and I was thrashing around thinking I was going to die, when out of nowhere, I felt someone grab my arm and pull me, coughing and choking, to the surface. “It’s okay, buddy,” he said. “I gotcha.”
The memory’s remote. Nothing comes before and nothing comes after until years later. I used to suspect it was just a dream, until my brother brought it up. He was on a date and I was sitting in the backseat of his car because our parents made him take me with him, and when he stopped at a stoplight, he turned to his girlfriend who was riding shotgun and said, “You know, I saved Aiden’s life once.”
His girlfriend looked back at me like she didn’t know whether or not to believe him, and he caught my eye in the rearview mirror and said, “Ain’t waterfallshe dreams with river fingers
as the skipping stones skip by
and the ripples on her eyelids
speak of cerulean skies
as the sunlight glimmers through her
finding gold streaks in her hair
songbird melodies delight her
in the smiling summer air
she’s a mirror, slow and quiet
she is grace and depth and flow
but she yearns for force and fire
and a way to be her own
cattail irises shed oceans
and the water lilies wilt
while she drifts in languid sorrow
duckweed tresses lose their gilt
words and rose thorns clog her waters
rocks and tree roots drive her stream
out of misery she rises
with her blossom eyes agleam
tranquil streams awaken torrents
rushing footfalls stir up spray
and she glows with newfound glory
in her cascading ballet .I stalk your words
yes, those silly
little things you scribble
down in the margins
of your dreams, and
even more so
those corporeal chains
of script that bind
your tongue fast to
the roof of your mouth.
I stalk your words
and I prey on those
who dare decipher
how the graphite tail 
of your thoughts
hooks letters together.
I promise I'll be
close at hand
when they staunchly
sink their barbs
into the marrow of
your mind and
suck you dry.
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Much obliged for the feature!