2016 5/30

(26.) BUNE, or BIME. - The Twenty-sixth Spirit is Bune (or Bim). He is a Strong, Great and Mighty Duke. He appeareth in the form of a Dragon with three heads, one like a Dog, one like a Gryphon, and one like a Man. He speaketh with a high and comely Voice. He changeth the Place of the Dead, and causeth the Spirits which be under him to gather together upon your Sepulchres. He giveth Riches unto a Man, and maketh him Wise and Eloquent. He giveth true Answers unto Demands. And he governeth 30 Legions of Spirits. His Seal is this, unto the which he oweth Obedience. He hath another Seal (which is the first of these,15 but the last is the best

We would cut through the woods,

past the empty house with it's rotting curtains

the bullet hole-riddled no trespassing signs

where the trailer-dwellers fired rock salt at us

We would climb the back fence,

a few overgrown, forgotten graves

in the thick brush

cross the gravel path in the dark, hiding from cops

local legend said

if you kissed the angel statue at midnight

it's eyes would light up

said a light burned in the mausoleum

and someone wrote, or cried inside

we would run through the fog-filled bowl

of the muddy pond

drink stolen liquor

smoke shitty weed

on the mausoleum steps

lay on the toppled cross

came once, at midnight

to find a mausoleum door

standing open

a casket sitting in the middle of the road

saw the spray-painted swastikas

of teenagers worse than us

when you died they burned your body

threw your ashes in some lake

they never told me where.