The Dust Devil

 The Dust Devil is included in in Bag of Bones - 206 Word Stories: A Horror Anthology.  You can order this book on Amazon.  All profits goes to a children's charity in Britain.

This was a difficult prose poem to place.    Most of the places rejected it with a personal comment that went like this: 

"Your piece made it to our second round of readings--we thought the voice and the style were unique and created a very vivid atmosphere, which is just the sort of "otherworldliness" accomplished through language that we're going for in our publication. Ultimately, however, we will be passing on the piece."

 This lone little dogie of doggerel starts off:

I’m blowin’ cross the plains and Hell’s acomin’ with me.

Ya can’t run from my ragin' red tower of brimstone.

I’ll whirl ya to the boneyard as the souls of the damned scream.

I kin spin those copper rivets right off the levis of Monkey Ward cowboys till their chaps fall off.

Toss any lost little doggies or dang dinosaruses off the plains. Sand the spots off the pintos.

Dare ya to grin. I’ll scour ya phiz off.

 Language is based on a cowboy diction of terms from the Western US in the late 1800s.

 

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