on the right a mile down a fire
freedoms fall like cinders
his gun? why it meant a lot in the day
of ransoms for the whole father
easier to unthink wishes than narrate
standing kneedeep in a narrow riverbed
casting to catch the red-eye and give
up raspy whisky fairly straight
swore on a business idea
hey
elephant money for miles of monstrous morale
fat minutes shacked
together in a tight mancave spare p o w camp
sweaty morning scattered with showtime skiff
drunks and a lot of friendly dialect collected
asleep
a makebelieved hatter cussed out any reckoning
and cleaned up well later, looking ratty raddy ready
anyway, dying dollars spent over longer days
busted and shoved into ahundred trusted secrets
we hung out late and talked lonesome about
a ragged police door everybody went through
old regular goodness with no luck underneath
shooken we never wrote anything slim
every extreme from a greasy devil to the
name dropping of an hornery derringer
those around who lived never understood
in kitchen clothes respectably ignorant
nice breakfast tin
of hot-crossed bad blood genies
minutes passed till new hands ticked talked
lamps rolled and we hunted a quick forever
laughing a polite robbers oath
the light sent sure as candles
but something was left waiting
a number like howmany hogsigns
till nothing is forgotten tho better off gone
curious,
we pulled into mindtown
half past clay and white sand
the last fool looked at the coming mouthful
of broad rubs awakened in the nighthouse
stuck his ground with wanted wants
for a palace in which to lay uncomfortably
and came up against everything
six ways times 6 stock things drop
by mean books, time and a shaky rimshot
get going, get the country cabin judge and his fish son
they slid in and were soundlocked you know
away past parts mixed back before we won trouble
and cried out landishly
anyhow, the boy caught
a tale and hooked our supper
from atop mighty loose logs long and heavy
still on short notice
uncommonly beautiful brothers sleepy and wonderful
dropped crawled shed who knows?
we take miserableness warn out and bear
hardly a smooth olé from the bull
