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My deva is a djinni, long of horn and quick of wit Her tongue is sharp because it’s forked, totidem verbis shit A lover and a fighter and a brewer of storms Imagination to fly deus by the right to bear arms The angels turned into djinn When left to stew in Earth’s sin The flames of their swords inspired the even mightier pen Looking past my earthly tether to take the baton Scorpions creep from the fog Enforcing this Amazon The princess of light is gentle Yet ever so forceful Invented the apple game The gift and curse is sweet torture. Fires of passion, please believe I tease and I burn the hottest The game: mum is the word, til you moan “Oh my Goddess!” There is no present glory in telling of allegories It’s better memento mori For the love-and-war story; I won’t lie to you, I’m blunt, a heavy-handed, hard hitter The fire razed me this way, so I eat the word “quitter” An invention of collision fizzy jaded innocence bliss is