Okay, I'll give it a shot...
Mexican Movie, 1939
In dubious light we see the villain, El
Diablo, riding on a pale white horse.
A Devil lives inside this villain; hell
is gila monsters coiled inside the bell
of the dead church, the late sun’s tepid force.
In dubious light we see a villa, El
Casa del Sur, by whose adobe shell
Diablo reins his horse. But a still worse
Devil lives inside: our villain’s hell
is named Rosita Cruz, for whom he fell
in lust, for whom he took the villain’s course.
In dubious light we see the villanelle
Diablo witched up hoping it would spell
the end of her resistance, but of course
the Devil lives inside this villa; hell
is beauty dead to poems, to him: Why, tell
me, Dios, why so much pain? Are you the source?
In dubious light who knows the villain’s Hell?
What Devil lives inside this villanelle?
Last edited by Tony Barnstone; 03-09-2010 at 05:45 PM.
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