Thursday, February 7, 2008

Four by Todd Moore

blind whiskey

& the straight
razor blues
keno sd
stubbing his
cigaret out
in the palm
of his hand
yr gonna burn
yrself good
lemon drop
sd tossing
a long neck
into the
sink just to
hear it ex
plode then
keno kicked
a hole in
the wall
sd shd we
get drunk first
& torch
the house
or you just
fucken wanna
shoot out
the lights

#

gunshots

then lenny
came out
& got in
the car
you do
everyone
garner
asked
the fuck
do you
take me
for lenny
sd ten
seconds
after gar
ner drove
off the
front of
the house
blew in
to the
yard

#

sonny threw

a right that
knocked out
screwball’s
glass eye
& he wd’ve
followed up
w/a left
to the chest
but screw
ball was
down on
one knee &
cdn’t get
up then i
pretended
to drop
my lucky
quarter &
scooped
the eye right
out of the
weeds
while screw
ball was
yelling
mama

#

tore a

page out
of the
book of
revela
tions
wrote
fuck you
across it
& handed
it back
coco sd
jesus christ
jake ain’t
you got
any brains
jake smiled
pulled a
25 auto
out of
his coat
pointed at
the barrel
sd i
keepem
in here

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