devouring

The devourer of souls stepped out
in pinstripe skin and hat-shaped head.
It perfectly fit in
to every benefit of doubt,
and preyed upon
those willing to believe
in human beings
not
in one of these,
instead. But
this thing's close enough
not to be quite
found out.

It's made
of stranger stuff
than anything you'd
understand, but
just to look at it
it's one of us.

Things go
as they are planned