This next poem is called "Sun Shower."
And it was inspired by a list of regionalisms for sun showers.
Does anyone know any regionalisms for sun showers?
The devil is beating his wife.
That's the first one.
So yeah, most of them are I've made them up.
But that one's real.
"Sun Shower."
Some people say the devil is beating his wife.
Some people say the devil is pawing his wife.
Some people say the devil is doubling down
on an overall attitude of entitlement
toward the body of his wife.
Some people say the devil won't need
to be sorry, as the devil believes that nothing
comes after this life.
Some people say that, in spite of the devil's
public longstanding and meticulously long disdain
for the health and wholeness of his wife,
the devil spends all day every day
insisting grandly and gleefully on his general prowoman ethos
that the devil truly considers himself
to be an unswayed crusader, effortlessly
magnetic, scrupulous, gracious, and, in spite
of the devil's several advanced degrees, a luminous autodidact.
Some people say calm down.
This is commonplace.
Some people say calm down.
This is very rare.
Some people say the sun is washing her face.
Some people say, in hell, they're having a fair.