One night I went walking
towards a roadhouse shack
beside dirt track blues.
I was convinced I was the child of a man
everyone lived in fear of. Once inside of boomerang wood
strips that leaned on one another like friends
the promise of cheap drink consumed me
enough to order. People sat on stools
wore flag caps and oily rags
they studied the bottle in front of…
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