The Devil Has No Horns
In Simple words
The devil has no horns
She wears smaug balm, Oh, Lord of the Rings
She sleeps in El Dorado Street, the Hotels of Svengali
She lives on Babbit lane, and reads Currer Bell
She loves Billy Joel, “we didn’t start the fire”
She eats at the Lothario Restaurant
In Simple words
Her lips are hot, like a furnace for Prufrock
Her hips collapse both ways, like Cassandra
She drinks Starnbergersee, the Kingly Brand
She is full of images that kill honchos
When you see Aphrodite, don’t look at her
Total comeuppance
In Simple words
She is Lady Macbeth, ask Shakespeare
She is Estella, Concoction of expectations
She is Milady De Winter, Dumas Doomsday
She is Carmilla of Carmilla, talk to Sheridan Le Fanu
She is Gillian's Amy Dunne, Downright evil
She is Gaiman's callous Coraline, stone and cold
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
In Simple words
The Egyptian Book of the Dead lives
The Epitaphs are scratched by pussy cats
Brazen with macabre fingerprints
Odysseus wept, Circe and Calypso Left
Boewulf is gone, His Angeline is Jolly
Gilgamesh and Enkidu perished
Samson of Delilah, Adam of Eden
Othello of Desdemona, Urshu of the Gods
And in my countryside village
An innocent Boy called Egekone Bori
Notes: Apart from Smaug a rich fictional character in the film, "Lord of the Rings", the images are drawn from literature and mythology: Svengali is a fictitious Man with hypnotic power found in George du Mauriels romantic novel, "Trilby"; El Dorado is known for its imagined wealth; Babbit is Sinclair Lewis's materialistic character; Currer Bell was pen name to allow the publication of Charllotte Bronte; "we didnt start the fire" is a song by Billy Joel; Lothario is the seductive woman in "The Fair Penitent", by Nicholas Rowe; Prufrock is a confused character in T.S Eliot's poem "The love Song of J Alfred Prufrock." Aphrodite is the famous peculiar yet cantankerous goddess. The 3rd stanza focuses on some of the most evil characters in literature known to me and of course "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is the outright reference to John Keats merciless girl). In the fourth stanza, I have drawn from the "Egyptian Book of the Dead"; Also remember Angeline Jole, the female evil one in "Boewulf"; the "Epic of Gilgamesh"; and Shakespeare's Othello. Urshu is the god who dies though he resurrects in the deus ex machina applied in the famous movie, "The Gods of Egypt". "Egekone Bori" is an Expression among the Abagusii in Western dwelling of Kenya that means "the strange one"
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