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O’Folliard

The skinny Texas kid

Thin-lipped and

glass bottle feminine

Sucked marbles with a stupid grin

Kept a pocket full of Lone Star sand.

Spatter dashed across his broken nose

Was freckle dust and old pox scabs

“I’d like to sometime see the coast

Throw coins to all the fish

And crabs

Wrestle with a giant squid

Collect what washes on the shore

Lick the fingers of a Chinese whore

And…

Oh this winter of falling teeth!

Oh this bastard year of stolen breath

Oh this lifetime, a scaffold walk

And I say

Woe to the child

And woe to the breast

Your shadow is the bleach of dawn

And the sky is but a bitter sea

Where ships of clouds careen and wreck

And the color of the hour pleads

To the greening stain around your neck

Left there from a chain, a golden cross

And yes, yes, I plead…