Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes,
The booze and the neon and Saturday night,
The swaying in darkness, the lovers like spoons?
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes?
Does he hum them to while away sad afternoons
And the long, lonesome Sundays? Or sing them for spite?
Why should the Devil get all the good tunes,
The booze and the neon and Saturday night?
Copyright Credit: A. E. Stallings, "Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther" from Poetry, April 2005. Copyright © 2005 by A. E. Stallings. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Source: Poetry (April 2005)