RUBY

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Don't wear it.
Put it in old, wooden box,
and ask to be buried with it.
When you're on your way to hell,
You'll need it:
with a ruby the devil bought
from Faust - the old, wise alchemist -
one, one only, moment
of sweet, sweet death.

© Stephan Gechev
© Don Wilson, translated
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© E-magazine LiterNet, 23.06.2001, № 6 (19)

Other publications:
Hush, you Nightingales, Canton, Connecticut, 1993.