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Wages Of Sin

Kurt Philip Behm

How much profit
have you made
on your greed

The bursar
of hell
wants to know

How has your
 avarice
lived unrestrained

A glutton
those starving
in tow

How many times
have you dealt
from the bottom

Betting
the players
were blind

Sleeving that ace
that sends
you to hell

In debt
to the devil
—consigned

(Villanova University: November, 2023)
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Scheme XXX ABC AXX CDC XXX DXE XXB XXE A
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 349
Words 69
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1
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Kurt Philip Behm

Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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