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 ============================= © E-magazine LiterNet, 23.06.2001, № 6 (19)
Other publications: Hush, you Nightingales, Canton, Connecticut, 1993.