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Open Poetry #47

buckskin china for mr. e

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

0 posted 2011-02-01 12:21 PM

called him elmer to his face usually
or mc'crotchity ‘e' more often
when he was trying to line up his favors
to exchange for some sipping jack dan
or a twenty dollar seegar for pleasure

to make his lung cancer get angry
he would say between coughing
and the geezusdammit hope I die upstairs
so the coinner boy has to carry me down
and get his roids all a burnin', he'd grin

turned in expenses for needs and such
trimmed the fallout in his hair brush
with nail clippers, called it a haircut
worth fifteen down at the style and dye
or a pint of gentleman jack and some gum

county never questioned his enthusiasm
when keeping his books or filing claims
said he knew the governor by the first name
and carved him ducks from pine wood logs
left them at his cabin during the holidays

he never knew gov was dead, or I was his son

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daark (highway series, highway 155 north of woody town)

Mysteria

Member Laureate

since 2001-03-07

Posts 18328
British Columbia, Canada

1 posted 2011-02-01 04:26 PM

What a fantastic portrait Dark, especially loved this - I could almost see the stains on his teeth!

o make his lung cancer get angry
he would say between coughing
and the geezusdammit hope I die upstairs
so the coinner boy has to carry me down
and get his roids all a burnin', he'd grin

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

2 posted 2011-02-01 04:39 PM

thanks lady for the reads and smiles

JerryPat
Senior Member

since 2010-10-30

Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

3 posted 2011-02-01 04:54 PM

Ah, yes indeed -- the crusty old gentleman (he's probably knock some teeth out of my mouth if her heard me call him a gentleman -- put an image in my mind of some of the characters Jack Palance play as he grew older. Nice work.

~ What's The Difference Between Roast Beef And Pea Soup? / Anyone Can Roast Beef. ~

Dark Stranger
Member Patricius

since 2001-03-19

Posts 13631
West Coast

4 posted 2011-02-01 05:59 PM

thanks jp...this guy was a bit of "fuzzy jones" but around 250 pounds...rode a fatboy that always had mud all over it..

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