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  The Dark Man

  Stephen King

  The Dark Man

  Stephen King

  Published in "Ubris", 1969 and later in Moth, 1970.

  I have stridden the fuming way

  of sun-hammered tracks and

  smashed cinders;

  I have ridden rails

  and bumed sterno in the

  gantry silence of hob jungles:

  I am a dark man.

  I have ridden rails

  and passed the smuggery

  of desperate houses with counterfeit chimneys

  and heard from the outside

  the inside clink of cocktail ice

  while closed doors broke the world -

  and over it all a savage sickle moon

  that bummed my eyes with bones of light.

  I have slept in glaring swamps

  where musk-reek rose

  to mix with the sex smell of rotting cypress stumps

  where witch fire clung in sunken

  psycho spheres of baptism -

  and heard the suck of shadows

  where a gutted columned house

  leeched with vines

  speaks to an overhung mushroom sky

  I have fed dimes to cold machines

  in all night filling stations

  while traffic in a mad and flowing flame

  streaked red in six lanes of darkness,

  and breathed the cleaver hitchhike wind

  within the breakdown lane with thumb levelled

  and saw shadowed faces made complacent

  with heaters behind safety glass

  faces that rose like complacent moons

  in riven monster orbits.

  and in a sudden jugular flash

  cold as the center af a sun

  I forced a girl in a field of wheat

  and left her sprawled with the virgin bread

  a savage sacrifice

  and a sign to those who creep in

  fixed ways:

  I am a dark man.

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