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What You Singing About?
by T.J. Berg
The Devil and The Blues
Met the devil one day, drinking coffee at my favorite breakfast cafe. Devil was looking at me while I was reading my paper.
"What you want?" I asked the devil.
"Ain't never about what I want," Devil says. "Always about what you want."
"Don't want nothing," I says. "I look like a guy wants something?"
Devil just shrugged.
"I got me a good woman," I says.
Devil just says, "Uh huh." And he was agreeing.
"I got me a pair twin girls, sweet and spicy as gingerbread, love their daddy."
"Mm hmm," was all the devil says. He couldn't disagree.
"Got me a good job, gonna send my girls to school and buy my woman a fine little house."
"Sure that," the devil says. And he wasn't disagreeing with me. So I went back to reading my paper.
Devil was still looking at me.
"What you want?" I asked the devil.
"Ain't never about what I want," Devil says.
So I folded up my paper and I says, "Guess the only thing is, I always wanted to sing the blues."
The End
This story was first published on Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
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