RJ Walker begins this poem by making deceit sound as if he was his friend, or a person close to him. In doing this he intends to make the reader feel as if deceit is a person that is always standing there with him, as if he was the little devil on his shoulder telling him what to do. By referring to deceit in this manner throughout the poem it allows the audience an opportunity to lay blame for Walkers actions on someone else. Although deceit is not a person, he paints a great picture for us to begin to think that there was someone there. and displays this in several lines such as the open line of “Deceit and I have a strictly professional relationship” or “Decent and I did CPR for a lifetime”, or even “Decent handed me the clipboard”.
